tangential

1. ADJ If you describe something as tangential, you mean that it has only a slight or indirect connection with the thing you are concerned with, and is therefore not worth considering seriously. 关系不大的[正式]

Too much time was spent discussing tangential issues. 太多时间花在了讨论那些无关紧要的问题。

2. ADJ If something is tangential to something else, it is at a tangent to it. 相切的[oft ADJ 'to' n]

He closed his office on the street tangential to the courthouse square and walked the two blocks to his house.. 他关了与法院广场相切的那条街上的办公室门，走过了两条街回到家。