A lawyer should be skilled in the art of reasoning; it will not do in arguing a case to go off at a tangent into outside matters
律师要善于讲道理,辩论案件时突然离开本题说些不相干的话是不行的。
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It’s not easy to follow her thought because she’s always going off at a tangent.
要跟上她的思路并非易事,因为她老是突然扯到题外去。
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The teacher was telling us about the poet’s life, when he went off at a tangent and started talking about his war experiences.
老师在给我们讲述诗人生平故事的时候,突然把话题一转,讲开他自己的战争经历来了。
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英语成语:go off at a tangent
1.(informal)to suddenly start saying or doing something that does not seem to be connected to what has gone before
机译:(非正式)突然开始说或做一些似乎与过去无关的事情
He never sticks to the point but keeps going off at a tangent.
机译:他从不拘泥于某一点,而是一直偏离正题。
Laura’s mind went off at a tangent.
机译:劳拉突然走神了。
2.To begin addressing or discussing a topic or topics not relevant to the main discussion. In the middle of our conversation about my finances, my advisor went off at a tangent about current events.