but I digress

but I digress — pero estoy divagando

to digress FROM something — apartarse de algo

to digress from the subject — apartarse del tema

but I digress — pero estoy divagando

to digress FROM something — apartarse de algo

incroyable mais vrai — strange but true

mais ne t'inquiète donc pas! — don't you worry about it!

je n'ai rien compris, mais vraiment rien! — I understood absolutely nothing!

‘est-ce que je peux venir aussi?’ - ‘mais oui! — ‘can I come too?’ - ‘of course!’

mais, vous pleurez! — good heavens, you're crying!

mais alors, vous m'avez menti! — so you lied to me!

mais j'y pense — now that I come to think of it

mais dis-moi, tu le connais aussi? — so you know him too?

il n' y a pas de mais — there are no buts about it

C'est cher mais de très bonne qualité. — It's expensive, but very good quality.

mais non! — of course not!

mais encore? ironique — is that all?

incroyable mais vrai — strange but true

mais ne t'inquiète donc pas! — don't you worry about it!

je n'ai rien compris, mais vraiment rien! — I understood absolutely nothing!

‘est-ce que je peux venir aussi?’ - ‘mais oui! — ‘can I come too?’ - ‘of course!’

mais, vous pleurez! — good heavens, you're crying!

mais alors, vous m'avez menti! — so you lied to me!

mais j'y pense — now that I come to think of it

mais dis-moi, tu le connais aussi? — so you know him too?

il n' y a pas de mais — there are no buts about it

C'est cher mais de très bonne qualité. — It's expensive, but very good quality.

mais non! — of course not!

mais encore? ironique — is that all?

¡no divagues! — get on with it!, come to the point!

bebió mucho y empezó a divagar — he drank a lot and he started to ramble

bebió mucho y empezó a divagar — he drank a lot and he started to ramble

ouvrir une parenthèse — to digress

refermons la parenthèse — but to come back to what we were talking about

ouvrir la parenthèse — to open brackets

fermer la parenthèse — to close brackets

(= ausweichen) (vom Thema) ablenken — to change the subject; (bei einem Gespräch auch) to turn the conversation

jemanden von etwas ablenken — distract somebody from something

alles, was ablenkt — everything that is distracting

das lenkt dich davon ab — that'll take your mind off it

[vom Thema] ablenken — change the subject

jemanden von etwas ablenken — distract somebody from something

alles, was ablenkt — everything that is distracting

das lenkt dich davon ab — that'll take your mind off it

[vom Thema] ablenken — change the subject

ex istoc loco,

e medio,

ex civitate,

ex Italia,

e templo,

for which, templo,

ex finibus,

for which, finibus,

ex itinere,

ex via,

for which, viā,

ex pugna, ex proelio,

for which, more freq., pugnā,

and, proelio,

acio,

loco,

locis,

and bello,

domo,

oppido,

urbe,

Arimino,

Galliā,

provinciis,

patriā,

sceleratā terrā,

de utero matris,

abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit,

excedere deos, simul ingens motus excedentium,

primi omnium Macedones metu excesserant,

cave quoquam ex istoc excessis loco,

agro hostium in Boeotiam,

ex his tenebris in lucem illam,

ad deos,

invictum fore donec excederet ad deos,

in exsilium,

in which sense also simply excedere,

alter in Pontum, alter usque Aegyptum excessit,

ut nulla (pars) excederet extra,

with eminere,

montes et excedentia in nubes juga,

sic ille cum undequadraginta annos regnavisset, excessit e vita,

e vita,

vitā,

e medio,

but v. decedo excessus, I.),

cum animus Eudemi e corpore excesserit,

corpore excedere,

is postquam excessit ex ephebis,

ut primum ex pueris excessit Archias,

ad patres etiam et ad publicam querimoniam excessit res,

haec eo anno in Africa gesta. Insequentia excedunt in eum annum, quo, etc.,

paululum ad enarrandum, etc.,

in fabellam,

in aliquid,

res parva dictu, sed quae studiis in magnum certamen excesserit,

eo laudis excedere, quo, etc.,

cura ex corde excessit,

cum cupiditatum dominatus excessit,

jam e memoria excessit, quo tempore? etc.,

for which, memoriā,

ubi reverentia excessit animis,

Cannaene tibi graviorque palude Maeonius Stygia lacus excessere Padusque?

urbem,

23, 1: curiam,

Crotonem excessum est,

nubes excedit Olympus,

statura, quae justam excederet,

summam octoginta milium,

so of numbers, very freq.,

also of age,

triennium vitae,

annum aetatis centesimum,

of measure: laborum periculorumque modum,

modum,

eloquentia aut aequavit praestantissimorum gloriam aut excessit,

praeturae gradum,

principum fastigium,

fastigium equestre,

excedente humanam fidem temeritate,

fidem,

excessisse Priscum inmanitate et saevitia crimina, quibus, etc.,

nemine tantum ceteros excedente, ut ei aliquis se summitteret,

decretum, ne vasa auro solida ministrandis cibis fierent, etc.... Excessit Fronto ac postulavit modum argento,

egredi relationem,

duo enim multitudo, unione jam excessā,