词为我用 - digress

词汇释义

digress  TEM8IELTS    GRE

UK  /daɪˈɡres/ US  /daɪˈɡres/

verb, If you digress, you move away from the subject you are talking or writing about.离题，偏离主题

外刊例句

1. But Laurie thought about the doting grandmother Claire was, how she would patch jeans and sew masks, how she’d digress from political arguments over text to share pictures of a new haircut.(Washington Post)

2. But the movie loses its way when Satrapi digresses into flights of time travel, set pieces designed to illustrate how the Curies’ discoveries were used for both healing and destruction.(Washington Post)

3. After digressing, he said he was moving in the direction of picking a woman.(The Guardian)

4. At other moments during his speech, Trump digressed to rattle off insults at the Democratic candidates running for president.(The Guardian)

5. But I digress – it’s the internal monologue that counts.(The Guardian)

6. “We’re really digressing rapidly, and we need to speak up and say something again and try to get some unity and some support and wake up the people in America,” she said.(Washington Times)

7. And they digressed, embroidering an extravagant tapestry of miniature, marvellous detail.(The Guardian)

8. “But I digress, as this letter is about what to do now and about investing capital, so how do we invest today?”(New York Times)

9. As for the minor nits, Mr. Smith tends to digress, mentioning academic papers he wrote that are at best tangential to the concept of value investing.(New York Times)

10. To be fair, the franchises are what you pitch to the stockholders, but I digress.(Forbes)

11. Jonathan Prime / Netflix “Black Museum” keeps a potentially scattered story on track without digressing into generic complaints about modern culture.(The Verge)

12. But I digress, I am here to talk about what surely must be the first book based on a movie based on an app.(The Verge)

词汇搭配

digress from, into

词汇来源

"to turn away in speaking or writing from the direct or appointed course," 1520s, from Latin digressus, past participle of digredi "to go aside, depart, deviate," from dis- "apart, aside" (see dis-) + gradi "to step, go" (from PIE root *ghredh- "to walk, go"). Or perhaps it is a back-formation from digression. Related: Digressed; digressing.

近义词

shift, change, switch, deviate, divert

反义词

stay, keep, focus, concentrate

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