detour

détour, déviation

Chemin différent du trajet prévu ou habituel, souvent plus long.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : detour around something (The detour around the bridge added ten minutes.); detour via somewhere (We took a detour via the coast.)

Synonymes : diversion, alternative route

Expressions courantes : take a detour, make a detour, short detour

faire un détour

Passer par un autre chemin que celui prévu, souvent plus long.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : detour around something (We detoured around the flooded road.); detour through somewhere (They detoured through a nearby village.)

Synonymes : divert, go around

Expressions courantes : detour around something, detour through town, detour via somewhere