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A digression is a stretch of talk or writing that leaves your main subject and goes somewhere else for a while. You have not changed the real topic; you have just off the path. Teachers do this constantly: a story, a joke, a “by the way,” then “anyway, back to the point.” That return sentence is the sound of a digression ending. The word is a little . In ordinary talk people say they went off topic, or that something was a side story. A short digression can warm a lesson; a long one makes listeners lose the thread. You can also use it sharply: calling something a digression means it does not belong here.
離題；岔出去的話
原始詞典資料5 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。
digressionnoun/dʌɪˈɡɹɛʃən/
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An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
- The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.
- History tells us stodgy, cautious stuff, cardigan-football is the way to go here. The 1966 World Cup kicked off with 0-0 draw against Uruguay so tedious the Guardian match report contains a whimsical digression on the writer’s urge to drift off to sleep in the second half.
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The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
- make digression... by way of digression...
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obsoleteA deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule.
- Nature... More stronger hadde her operacyon Than she hath nowe in her dygressyon.
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archaicA deviation, an act of straying from a path.
- By this little digression into Gascony, the Duke had an opportunity... to re-inforce himself with some particular Servants of his.
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astronomynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAn elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path.
- This digression [of the Sun] is not equall, but neare the Æquinoxiall intersections, it is right and greater, near the Solstices, more oblique and lesser.
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。