[PHRASE 短语]被引入歧途 If you are led astray by someone or something, you behave badly or foolishly because of them.
[V inflects]
The judge thought he'd been led astray by older children.
法官认为他已经被那些年长的孩子们带坏了。
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[PHRASE 短语]误导;使作错误决定 If someone or something leads you astray, they make you believe something which is not true, causing you to make a wrong decision.
[V inflects]
The testimony would inflame the jurors, and lead them astray from the facts of the case...
证言会激怒陪审员,使他们背离案件事实。
We drove east to Rostock, where my map led me astray.
我们驱车向东去罗斯托克,但地图却给我指错了方向。
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[PHRASE 短语]遗失;丢失 If something goes astray, it gets lost while it is being taken or sent somewhere.
[V inflects]
Many items of mail being sent to her have gone astray.
许多寄给她的邮件都不知所终。
Oxford
astray/əˈstreɪ; NAmEəˈstreɪ/adverbIDIOMgo aˈstray1to become lost; to be stolen 丢失;被盗◆Several letters went astray or were not delivered.有几封信丢失或未投递。◆We locked up our valuables so they would not go astray.我们把贵重物品锁了起来以免被盗。2to go in the wrong direction or to have the wrong result 走错方向;误入歧途◆Fortunately the gunman's shots went astray.幸好持枪歹徒把子弹打偏了。◆Jack's parents thought the other boys might lead him astray(= make him do things that are wrong).杰克的父母认为,其他的男孩可能会把他引入歧途。astray/əˈstreɪ; NAmEəˈstreɪ/
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astraya‧stray /əˈstreɪ/ adverb
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1go astraya)to be lost or stolen: The letter had gone astray in the post.b)if a plan or action goes astray, it goes wrong: The best-laid plans can go astray.2lead somebody astraya)to encourage someone to do bad or illegal things that they would not normally do: The older boys led him astray.b)to make someone believe something that is not true: It’s easy to be led astray by the reports in the papers.
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