adj. excursive ; tangential ; irrelevant ; digressive
misc. beside point
在开始撰写文章之前写一个大纲,不然你很容易就会写一些离题的东西。
Write an outline before you start writing the article, or you would easily write something that is beside the point.
把细节和离题的东西放到脚注,然后删除脚注。
Put details and digressions in footnotes. Then delete the footnotes.
这是他出的第三本书,上次出书还是25年前。 但是书中几乎没有过时和离题的内容。
This, his third gardening book, is also his first in 25 years, but little here feels fusty or irrelevant.
and you may have said to yourself as you were reading it, "Well, gee, isn't this sort of digressive?
读的时候你可能会对自己说,天,难道这不是离题了吗?
It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.
这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着,好像他的思想,在游离,从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面,但是提到机器并不是偶然。
All right, so that was a quick aside on thinking about how these properties can, in fact, relate to something in our body.
好的,我们刚才小小地离题了一下,来想了想我们讲过的性质,在实际上,是如何跟我们身体的某些机能联系起来的。
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