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

太荒谬了。Sheldon，我投票那没有离题。

Another instance of disorganized thinking is derailment, where a person just goes on numerous and many unrelated tangents.

另一个思维混款例子是“脱轨”，一个人就会把很多不相关扯到一起。

Not really. I feel somewhat like an inverse tangent function that's approached an asymptote. Are you saying you're stuck?

不太好，感觉像是反正切曲线接近渐近线了。你是说你卡住了？

So, this line is called the tangent.

所以，这条线被称为切线。

We didn't have to...that was clearly a tangent. Now come on. Back to work. If we're leaning towards quantum coupling...Aah! Why?

我们没必要投... 刚刚显然离题了。快点，回到正。如果我们倾向于量子耦合...啊！干嘛？

Can you believe all these tangents came out of talking about alignment?

你能相信所有这些离题都源于谈论对齐吗？

Anyway, thanks for coming on this tangent with me.

不管怎样， 谢谢你来和我讨论这个话题。

You still stare off into the distance and go on science tangents!

- 啊！ 您仍然凝视远方， 学切线！

Is that what you call going off on tangents and including completely irrelevant information?

这就是您所谓离题并包含完全不相关信息吗？

He dropped the newspaper, yawned, and let his mind drift off at a tangent.

他丢下报纸， 打了个哈欠， 让思绪飘向了一个切线。

Actually, if we can take a tangent on that, once again, returning to the biblical verses of your tweets.

实， 如果我们能再次切题，回到你推文中圣经经文。

I didn't know how to answer questions back then, I would just run on these tangents.

那时我不知道如何回答问题，我只会跑题。

So if you get to the main point really quickly, you're less likely to go off on a tangent earlier on.

因此，如果你很快就到达了要点，你就不太可能在前面偏离主题。

You said " quantum coupling." That made me think of the show Quantum Leap. That's a tangent and it's your fault.

你说了“量子耦合” 那让我想到了《时空怪客》。是你偏离了正题。

And by the way, parallel tangents can be okay as I showed in that E letter.

顺便说一句，正如我在 E 封信中所示，平行切线是可以。

It's actually perpendicular to the radius of the circle -- along what we call a tangent.

它实际是垂直于圆—— 关于所谓探探。

I go off on a tangent; I start talking about something that isn't directly related to this episode.

我切线了；我开始谈论与这一集没有直接关系。

The scripts for ESL Podcast are never confused or convoluted; they don't go off on tangents.

ESL Podcast 脚本永远不会混淆或令人费解；他们不会离题。

Oh, sporto, that… this has already devolved into another superfluous tangent.

哦，运动，那个… … 这已经变成了另一个多余切线。

If I'm drawing just one letter, the parallel tangents can help really sell that as a singular object.

如果我只画一个字母，平行切线可以帮助真正将其作为一个单一对象进行销售。