digressions

After several digressions , he finally got to the point.

说了几句题外话之后，他终于言归正传了。

But a truce to these painful digressions: let me return to our houses .

但是这些痛苦的闲话先打住：让我回到房屋的话题上。

Stakeholders must not overreact to early mistakes, digressions, or immature designs.

涉众不应对早期错误、背离或不成熟的设计反应过激。

He was a great talker, and often our lessons would turn into lengthy digressions on various aspects of Chinese culture.

他是很健谈，而且经常是我们的课会跑题到中国文化的各个方面。

This book could probably do without his long digressions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq war.

假若没有对巴以冲突和伊拉克战争离题的长篇大论这本书还算可以。

Digressions in burner adjustment are typically the cause for soot formation.

燃烧器调节不当是形成煤烟的主要原因。

Progress: Healthy projects display a sequence of progressions and digressions.

进展：健康的项目展示出一个进展和背离的序列。

The question and answer format allows for digressions and repetitions.

书的问答格式导致（内容的）离题和重复。

His history, full of anecdotes and digressions and lively dialogue, is wonderfully readable but not accurate.

他的历史充满逸闻趣事，以生动的对白见称，但不准确。

Put details and digressions in footnotes. Then delete the footnotes.

把细节和离题的东西放到脚注，然后删除脚注。

such digressions can lead us too far afield.

这样的离题会引导我们离题越来越远。

no matter how ashamed I am of my digressions* or sins.

不管我对自己迷失了方向或犯下的罪过是多么的惭愧…

Your readers' time is very valuable, so they don't have time to read long digressions or poorly organized, meandering prose.

读者的时间是宝贵的，所以他们不会有时间去读冗长、离题、结构不清、需要大修的文章。