digression 音标拼音: [dɑɪgr'ɛʃən]
n . 离题,扯到枝节上,脱轨
离题,扯到枝节上,脱轨
digression n 1 :
a message that departs from the main subject [
synonym :
{
digression }, {
aside }, {
excursus }, {
divagation },
{
parenthesis }]
2 :
a turning aside (
of your course or attention or concern ); "
a diversion from the main highway "; "
a digression into irrelevant details "; "
a deflection from his goal " [
synonym :
{
diversion }, {
deviation }, {
digression }, {
deflection },
{
deflexion }, {
divagation }]
3 :
wandering from the main path of a journey [
synonym : {
digression },
{
excursion }]
Digression \
Di *
gres "
sion \,
n . [
L .
digressio :
cf .
F .
digression .]
1 .
The act of digressing or deviating ,
esp .
from the main subject of a discourse ;
hence ,
a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject .
[
1913 Webster ]
The digressions I can not excuse otherwise ,
than by the confidence that no man will read them . --
Sir W .
Temple .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A turning aside from the right path ;
transgression ;
offense . [
R .]
[
1913 Webster ]
Then my digression is so vile ,
so base ,
That it will live engraven in my face . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 . (
Anat .)
The elongation ,
or angular distance from the sun ;
--
said chiefly of the inferior planets . [
R .]
[
1913 Webster ]
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "
digression ":
aberrancy ,
aberration ,
ambages ,
apostrophe ,
aside ,
bend ,
bias ,
branching off ,
bypass ,
bypath ,
byway ,
circling ,
circuit ,
circuition ,
circuitousness ,
circuitry ,
circularity ,
circulation ,
circumambience ,
circumambiency ,
circumambulation ,
circumbendibus ,
circumflexion ,
circumlocution ,
circummigration ,
circumnavigation ,
corner ,
crook ,
crosswiseness ,
curve ,
declination ,
deflection ,
deflexure ,
departure ,
detour ,
deviance ,
deviancy ,
deviating ,
deviation ,
deviousness ,
diagonality ,
digressing ,
discursion ,
divagation ,
divarication ,
divergence ,
diversion ,
dogleg ,
double ,
drift ,
drifting ,
episode ,
errantry ,
excurse ,
excursion ,
excursus ,
exorbitation ,
gyre ,
gyring ,
hairpin ,
incident ,
indirection ,
indirectness ,
meandering ,
nonconformity ,
obiter dictum ,
obliqueness ,
obliquity ,
orbit ,
orbiting ,
parenthesis ,
pererration ,
rambling ,
roundabout ,
roundabout way ,
roundaboutness ,
rounding ,
sheer ,
shift ,
shifting ,
shifting course ,
shifting path ,
side path ,
side road ,
sidetrack ,
skew ,
skewness ,
slant ,
spiral ,
spiraling ,
squint ,
straying ,
sweep ,
swerve ,
swerving ,
swinging ,
tack ,
transverseness ,
turn ,
turning ,
twist ,
vagary ,
variation ,
veer ,
wandering ,
warp ,
wheeling ,
yaw ,
zigzag
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