Digress
[daɪ'gres] or [daɪ'ɡrɛs]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; 'She always digresses when telling a story'; 'her mind wanders'; 'Don't digress when you give a lecture'.
編輯:卡罗尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
(v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
(n.) Digression.
吉恩編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Deviate, diverge, wander, turn aside.
校對:菲利斯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See DEVIATE]
安吉莉娜整理
解釋/意思:
v.i. to step aside or go from the main subject: to introduce irrelevant matter.—n. Digres′sion a going from the main point: a part of a discourse not upon the main subject.—adjs. Digres′sional Digress′ive of the nature of a digression: departing from the main subject.—adv. Digress′ively.
艾丽萨校對
例句/造句/用法:
- But I digress. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But I will not digress. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But I am digressing from Fred Lamb! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- To return to what I have digressed from, let me add that perhaps they think I report them to you, deliver little messages, and the like. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- True, I said; and now that this division of our task is concluded, let us find the point at which we digressed, that we may return into the old path. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Now let us return to the point at which we digressed. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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