They always go off on tangents about their day at work, but never seem interested in yours.

他们也许总是峰回路转兜到自己整日的工作上，却对你的工作毫无兴趣。

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The "Heroes" website hosts cartoons, subsequently printed and bound into graphic novels, that go off on tangents to the main story.

《英雄》网站主持推出了漫画，接着又印刷杂糅为漫画小说，这些小说游离于故事主干的边缘。

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The core of the comic book character is there, but we kind of go off on all these different tangents."

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"Part of it was Ms. Martin had a tendency to go off on tangents, " Manno said.

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