detour

desvío, rodeo

Camino distinto del previsto o habitual, normalmente más largo.

En inglés sencillo: A different, often longer route taken instead of your planned or usual route.

• We took a detour.
• The roadworks forced us to make a long detour.
• A short detour brought us past the lake.

Cómo se usa: detour around something (The detour around the bridge added ten minutes.); detour via somewhere (We took a detour via the coast.)

Sinónimos: diversion, alternative route

Expresiones frecuentes: take a detour, make a detour, short detour

desviarse, dar un rodeo

Ir por un camino distinto del previsto, normalmente más largo.

En inglés sencillo: To go by a different, often longer route than the one you planned.

• We had to detour.
• The bus detoured around the closed bridge.
• Can we detour through the park on our way home?

Cómo se usa: detour around something (We detoured around the flooded road.); detour through somewhere (They detoured through a nearby village.)

Sinónimos: divert, go around

Expresiones frecuentes: detour around something, detour through town, detour via somewhere