digression
n. 离题,岔开
If you digress, you move away from the subject you are talking or writing about and talk or write about something different for a while.
I've digressed a little to explain the situation so far, so let me now recap...
刚才我稍稍离题说明了迄今的情况,现在让我来概述一下。
She digressed from her prepared speech to pay tribute to the President.
她脱离了发言稿的主题,对总统给予了高度赞扬。
1. a message that departs from the main subject
2. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern);
3. wandering from the main path of a journey
The audience cried the speaker down as soon as he started on a third digression.
当发言人第三次扯到题外去时听众发出喊声,使他讲不下去.
All this is a digression,'he added in a different tone.
不过这都是题外话. ” 他又换了口气说.
Now let's return from this digression to our subject.
现在咱们言归正传。
After this digression we return now to our original problem.
在这一段插话以后,现在回到原来的问题.
At this moment, thoughts of Celia were a digression.
此时此刻关于西莉亚的念头让人走神.