单词	detour
释义	detour1 noundetour2 verb detourde‧tour1 /ˈdiːtʊə $ -tʊr/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINdetour1 Origin: 1700-1800 French détour Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Furthermore, I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive. Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs. Moving from consultant to implementer is a detour you should be aware of. On our walk back to the ferry dock that afternoon we make one last detour to the beach. People with baby buggies have to walk in the roadway and residents, I think, have to make a detour. She could make just a small detour ... She had a decent map, didn't she? This is the how-to, practical guide that will help you avoid opportunistic detours and stay on track. To justify such an approach it is necessary to take a theoretical detour. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto keep away from a person or place► avoid to keep away from a person, because you do not want to talk to them, or keep away from a place, because there are problems there: · I'm sure Sarah's been avoiding me recently.· Drivers are advised to avoid Elm Street today due to heavy traffic and long delays.avoid somebody/something like the plague informal (=try very hard to avoid them): · Except when they were filming, the two actors avoided each other like the plague. ► stay away/keep away to not go near a person or place, because they may be dangerous or may cause problems: stay away/keep away from: · That evening he received a note warning him to stay away from the camp.· Keep away from my children, or I'll call the police.stay/keep well away (=completely avoid): · She walked along the path, keeping well away from the edge of the cliff. ► steer clear of also give somebody/something a wide berth informal to make an effort to avoid a person or place, because there could be serious problems if you do not: · We were told to steer clear of the main roads where we might be recognized.· She advised me to steer clear of Matthew - she said he couldn't be trusted.· Passersby gave the old man on the sidewalk a fairly wide berth. ► make a detour to travel around a place instead of through the centre of it, especially to avoid a traffic problem: · We had to make a long detour because of the floods. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► make/take a detour  We took a detour to avoid the town centre. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► long · But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street, and she was shivering with wet and cold. VERB► make · Attempting to make a detour, the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned.· On our walk back to the ferry dock that afternoon we make one last detour to the beach.· We used to make a detour going down Lenin Avenue.· People with baby buggies have to walk in the roadway and residents, I think, have to make a detour.· He made a detour to see it.· On the way to the tomato patch they made a detour to Louis's workshop to collect some baskets.· The traveller was forced to make an enormous detour.· The others, making courteous detours around them, talk, stop talking, kiss. ► take · To justify such an approach it is necessary to take a theoretical detour.· In any case all Euro-roads still lead to Rome, though they now take a detour through Mosae Trajectum.· Furthermore, I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive.· Nor when, a couple of hours later, they travelled back south towards the coast and took a detour into Silves.· Most fail when they take a detour into areas they know nothing about.· Instead of taking a detour, I decided it would be fun to pass through the flood, and drove towards it.· Tom Margittai successfully resisted the temptation to take a major detour from his original dream. 1a way of going from one place to another that is longer than the usual waymake/take a detour We took a detour to avoid the town centre.2American English a different road for traffic when the usual road cannot be used SYN diversion British English detour1 noundetour2 verb detourdetour2 verb [intransitive, transitive] American English Verb Table VERB TABLE detour Simple Form Present I, you, we, they detour he, she, it detours Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they detoured Present perfect I, you, we, they have detoured he, she, it has detoured Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had detoured Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will detour Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have detoured Continuous Form Present I am detouring he, she, it is detouring you, we, they are detouring Past I, he, she, it was detouring you, we, they were detouring Present perfect I, you, we, they have been detouring he, she, it has been detouring Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been detouring Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be detouring Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been detouring Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Before the opening of this new marina, yachts had to detour to the south to the Canaries. But the movie tells the wrong story, getting detoured into a murder investigation whose solution is far too obvious. Later in the morning Fakhrti detoured over back roads to his house. Mitchell trudged down the hall toward his corner office, detouring into the washroom to assess the damage to his hair. Northbound traffic was being detoured from I-5 to Highway 33 northbound to 140 westbound and back to I-5. On that same day, Franco ordered Varela to detour to Toledo. Pacino detours his motorcade to visit the grieving parents. When the actual construction began, I detoured daily on my way to school to check out the progress being made. to make a detour
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