excursus

/ek-skur-suhs/US // ɛkˈskɜr səs //UK // (ɛkˈskɜːsəs) //

游记,摘录,游学,摘记

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n.名词 noun

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plural ex·cur·sus·es, ex·cur·sus.
- : a detailed discussion of some point in a book, especially one added as an appendix.
- : a digression or incidental excursion, as in a narrative.

noundigression

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This has been a long excursus, and we must get back to our jaunt on the plain.
But such a retort involves just the dialectic excursus which I am here anxious to avoid.
But the account suggests another and independent question with respect to which I shall make an excursus.
This is not to say, of course, that the excursus in the second stage has been a loss and a defect.
But call it a note or 'excursus,' which is the scholarlike name for notes a little longer than usual, and all will be made right.