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To digress is to leave your main subject for a while and talk or write about something else. Speakers often mark it themselves: “I digress” means “I have wandered off — back to the point.” It is a little formal, more at home in talks, essays, and meetings than in very casual chat, where people say go off topic. A short side path can help; a long one loses the listener. It does not mean disagree — the two words only look a little similar.
離題、跑題
組成From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi (“to step aside / go apart”).
同家族的字
- digressionthe noun: a stretch of talk that has left the main subject
- progresssame Latin “step” root: progress is to step forward
- regresssame root: to step back
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
digressverb/daɪˈɡɹɛs/
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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.
- Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
- In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
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To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
- Thy overflow of good converts to bad; And thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。