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. |
柯林斯星级 | ★☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [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]
2 [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]
3 [PHRASE 短语]遗失;丢失 If something goes astray, it gets lost while it is being taken or sent somewhere. [V inflects]
|
来源 | 2007.4 |
Tags: 单词::2007
Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.
Previous card: Redundancy noun refer organization employees longer [business 商
Up to card list: 【妙蛙Anki考研系列】考研英语真题生词