That's ridiculous. Sheldon, I vote that is not a tangent.

太荒谬了。Sheldon，我投票那没有离题。

But in my teaching days, I found it difficult not to digress.

但在我教书的日子里，我发不离题。

Let's say that you're presenting an idea, and somebody tries to throw you off track.

假如说你正在表达一个构想，但有人试着让你离题。

So if you get a little off-topic, that's okay too.

如果你稍微有点离题，这没关系。

Today we've looked at how to get back on topic in conversations.

今天我们学习了聊天时，怎在离题的时候回到正题上。

Longer answers can easily lose focus and go off-topic.

更长的回答能会导致失去焦点和离题。

Back to what I learned, and this is a huge digression. This is up-in-space digression.

回到我所学到的，这是一个大的题外话。这简单是离题万里的题外话。

Okay, this seems like a whole sidebar, so we're gonna circle back to that.

好了，已经严重离题了，所以我们要转回原来的话题。

Balance, in other words, has never been my strong point.

但我离题了。

Examiners are scared that you will speak too long and go off topic.

官会担心你讲得太长从而离题。

This is just an aside, but it's interesting.

说个离题的事 不过有意思。

Here, I'd like to take a digression and tell you about how I got into AI.

在这里先离题一下，我想告诉你们我是如何进入人工智能领域的。

Today I want to talk about how to get back on topic in conversations

今天我们来看看在聊天中(如果离题了)怎重新回到话题中。

I have wandered a long way from the two letters that awaited us on the breakfast-table that Tuesday morning.

我离题太远了，回到那个周二早晨，摆在早餐桌上等着我们的两封信。

Swift's accomplishments as an artist—culturally, critically, and commercially—are so legion that to recount them seems almost beside the point.

斯威夫特作为一名艺术家的成就——在文化、评论和商业方面——不胜枚举，要一一列举似乎有点离题。

Now, if that happened, probably the whole essay was off-topic.

如果真是这的话，能整篇文章都离题了。

I didn't succeed. I suppose I didn't have the required passion for dangling participles, but I'm digressing.

我没有成功。我想我对垂悬分词没有那种必要的热情，但我离题了。

He gave full answers to every question and added extra detail, but he never went off-topic.

每个问题他都给出了完整的回答，并添加了额外的细节，但是他从未离题。

You don't want to go off topic and your answer needs to be easy to follow for the TOEFL rater.

你不能离题，并且你的答案必须让托福评委容易理解。

I think this would be flagged as off-topic by the grader and that would result in a very big penalty.

我认为这会被评分者标记为离题，这将导致严重扣分。