tangent:1. 切线 2. 正切 || go (fly) off at a tangent突然改变思想(行动)等 语料库共检中 76 条:美剧 17 · 电影 1 · 原著 50 · 演讲 8
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The professor had seemed grateful for Coleman's tangent off into matters of a light vein. " Yes?" he said, almost eagerly. " Are they selling a game really called that?"英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Only a few months remained before I was to matriculate for the University, yet I was making such good progress that I felt no apprehensions, and even took a pleasure in my studies. I kept in good heart, and learnt my lessons fluently and intelligently. The faculty I had selected was the mathematical one--probably, to tell the truth, because the terms "tangent," "differentials," "integrals," and so forth, pleased my fancy.英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
Prove that the scraping-knife should never be a secant, and the brush always a tangent to a shoe.英文原著 · 《Cambridge Pieces》
An oblong pane of straw-coloured shimmer, Across it, in a tangent, A smear of rose, black, silver. Short twists and upstartings, Rose-black, in a setting of bubbles: Sunshine playing between red and black flowers On a blue and gold lawn. Shadows and polished surfaces, Facets of mauve and purple, A constant modulation of values. Shaft-shaped, With green bead eyes; Thick-nosed, Heliotrope-coloured; Swift spots of chrysolite and coral; In the midst of green, pearl, amethyst irradiations.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
I heard the voice say 'Yes?' again inquiringly, but my mind ran off at a tangent.英文原著 · 《Prester John》