英:['daɪvəˌgeɪt]
美:[ˈdaɪvəˌɡet, ˈdɪvə-]
英:['daɪvəˌgeɪt]
美:[ˈdaɪvəˌɡet, ˈdɪvə-]
di·va·gate
dI v geIt
第三人称单数:divagates
现在分词:divagating
过去式:divagated
过去分词:divagated
divagation (n.)
词根:diverge
n.divagation 流浪;入歧途;分离;逸脱
vi.diverge 分歧;偏离;分叉;离题
vt.diverge 使偏离;使分叉
Verb
1. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking;
"She always digresses when telling a story"
"her mind wanders"
"Don't digress when you give a lecture"
"徘徊,漫游",来自1590年代的拉丁语 divagatus,是 divagari 的过去分词,意为"四处漫游",由 dis-(见 dis-)的同化形式和 vagari "漫游,闲逛"组成,源自 vagus "漫步,徘徊,漫游",比喻为"摇摆不定,不确定",这是一个起源不明的词。相关词汇: Divagated; divagating。
Late Latin divagatus, past participle of divagari, from Latin dis- + vagari to wander — more at vagary
The first known use of divagate was in 1599
1 I let the project take me wherever it likes. Ilet it divagate or stray, just as we describe a domestic animal that isn'tbeing shepherded around as straying.
我让项目带着我遨游,让它自由地选择岔路或迷路,就像一只不受看管而肆意游荡的驯养动物。
2 For a set scheduled to start at 10, the singer, who had spent much of the day divagating about what to wear onstage, appeared around midnight.
3 "Egoism is merely another name for the expression of a vital need," he said, after the divagating pause, defining the word more for his own satisfaction than in self-defense.
4 And the upshot is that the theistic determinist is never merciful, whereas the rational determinist is at least under a logical compulsion to be so, however he may resist or divagate.
5 If it can be done in prose—that is the puzzle—I divagate again.
6 So does a child’s balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch and slide off again from every obstacle.
7 Sometimes, indeed, it has been shy of it, and has divagated from it in wide circles; but, as soon as it becomes profound and humble again, it always returns.
8 And to this her curriculum recurred whether it had been divagating into history, geography, astronomy, English composition, or religious knowledge.
9 So does a child's balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch and slide off again from every obstacle.
10 Nine columns blindly zigzagged and divagated to false scents and imperfect information in chase of one man encumbered with a civil government on the run and several hundred wagons.
11 Owen's thoughts divagated suddenly, and he thought of the pain Harding would experience were he suddenly flung into Bohemian society.
12 But when they had sat down, Julius was little inclined to divagate into an account of his travels.
13 The rural afternoon, especially, when he smoked and grubbed and divagated as he pleased, was alone enough to make the five-and-twenty years of "swink" worth while.
14 If it can be done in prose - that is the puzzle - I divagate again.
15 So does a child's balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch, and slide off again from every obstacle.
16 We continued the subject, divagating as we went, and had a nice little sentimental conversation.
17 Please don't divagate from what we're discussing about! We don't need your political opinions.
请别从我们所讨论的事岔开话题, 我们不需要你政治上的意见.
1 漫游
wandering peripatetic meander ramble rove saunter sally walk roam tramp jaunt straggle wander rambling vagrant travel peregrinate swan vagabond range
2 离题
cold tangential digressive excursive irrelevantly discursively digressively aside sidetrack digression divagation discursion impertinency wander stray digress off the point away from the point off the mark off the track diverge from excursion tangent drift discursive deviation detour excursus beside the point impertinent divergence impertinence trail desultory wandering glance deviate diverge excurse beside the question talk from the point travel out of the record
3 流浪
planetary nomad bohemian fugitive nomadic roving vagrant peregrine bedouin castaway vagabond runabout peregrin wander stroll wandering rove vagrancy peregrinate roll rogue pilgrim bum tramp nomadize migratory Bedouin lumpen knockabout masterless vagarious roam vagabondage vagabondize drift stray wag on the drift
5 偏离
offset excursion deviation aberration deflection skew incline diverge derogate boss shift slippage deviance declination declension depart stray divert squint crab
6 徘徊
aprowl wandering peripatetic rangy knockabout dithery roam rove stravage range wander hover revolve linger muck loiter mooch maunder perambulate hang round linger about straggle air heels on the rove slope about prowl hang
7 脱离
aside secession split-up off separate depart deviate disengage secede undock lose get free get clear of take name off
9 入歧途
10 漂泊游荡