扯远 (扯遠)
chě yuǎn
Pinyin

Definition

扯远 (扯遠)
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chě yuǎn
  1. to digress
  2. to get sidetracked
  3. to go off on a tangent

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

扯
chě
  1. 1 to pull
  2. 2 to tear
  3. 3 (of cloth, thread etc) to buy
  4. 4 to chat
  5. 5 to gossip
  6. 6 (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous
  7. 7 hokey
扯淡
chě dàn
  1. 1 to talk nonsense
扯平
chě píng
  1. 1 to make even
  2. 2 to balance
  3. 3 (fig.) to be even
  4. 4 to call it quits
扯皮
chě pí
  1. 1 to wrangle
  2. 2 wrangling
扯蛋
chě dàn
  1. 1 variant: 扯淡 chě dàn

Idioms (5)

丢轮扯炮
diū lún chě pào
  1. 1 lose a wheel, tear at the gun (idiom); flustered and confused in a panic
东拉西扯
dōng lā xī chě
  1. 1 to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
生拉活扯
shēng lā huó chě
  1. 1 to wildly exaggerate the meaning of sth (idiom)
胡诌乱扯
hú zhōu luàn chě
  1. 1 to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head
胡诌八扯
hú zhōu bā chě
  1. 1 to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head

Sample Sentences

哎，扯远了。怎么研究起心理学了。快想想怎么炮制这条新闻吧。
āi ，chěyuǎn le 。zěnme yánjiū qǐ xīnlǐxué le 。kuài xiǎngxiang zěnme páozhì zhè tiáo xīnwén ba 。
Ah, we're getting off the topic, talking about how to do psychological research. Quick, think of a way to cook up this story.
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扯远啦，话说回来，我踏进和我们机构类似的那种前台服务大厅，
chěyuǎn la ，huàshuōhuílai ，wǒ tàjìn hé wǒmen jīgòu lèisì de nàzhǒng qiántái fúwù dàtīng ，
It's a long story. Anyways, I walked into the lobby, which was a lot like where I work.
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