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Astray Make Phrase 短语 Led   [V Inflects Lose

英语单词 astray
英美音标 [ə'strei]
中文释义 adv.迷途地,入歧途地
vocab简明 If you go astray, you lose the path. If you went to college intending to become a doctor, but instead became interested in making violent video games, your parents might feel you have gone astray.
vocab扩展 A stray animal is one that has gotten loose, and the adverb astray comes from this sense of wandering off from the proper place, even though it's not just for animals. If you go astray, you lose the right way, or are out of place. It can be a moral judgment: juvenile delinquents are kids who have gone astray. But it can also refer to small details. If you dress impeccably, you make sure that no thread is astray.
真题原句 Until California recently passed a law, American firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray.
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[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。

来源 2007.4

Tags: 单词::2007

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