topic
英 ['tɒpɪk] 美 ['tɑːpɪk]
n. 题目;话题;标题。
Lack of space forbids further treatment of the topic here.
因篇幅所限,此处不便对本题作进一步阐述。
This essay is so short that it can only scratch the surface of the topic.
这篇文章很短,只能对这一问题作肤浅的探讨。
辨析:
topic, subject, theme
这组词都含有“主题”的意思。其区别是:
subject着重指文章、书籍、画或谈话等所涉及对象的题目或主题; topic指谈话的话题或文章的题目; theme则指谈话或文章的主题,即中心思想。例如:
The article has not exhausted the subject.这篇文章并没有把这个问题讲透。
The accident was the sole topic of conversation.那事故是谈话的唯一话题。
All his articles seemed an expression of the same theme.他所有的文章好像反映了同一个主题。