astray

a·stray /əˈstreɪ/ adverbadv

1 go astray

a) to be lost or stolen 迷失，迷路；丢失；被盗

The letter had gone astray in the post.

这封信寄丢了。

b) if a plan or action goes astray, it goes wrong 〔计划或行动〕出错

The best-laid plans can go astray.

再周密的计划也有可能出错。

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go astray• The form you mailed must have gone astray.• We should not be comforted by allowing ourselves to regard Noam Friedman et al. as disturbed individuals who have gone astray.• The street is filled with teenagers who have gone astray.• I enclose a copy in case the original has gone astray.• It could be that fewer of those bright ideas will go astray.• It wasn't too windy, but windy enough to cause the occasional shot to go astray.• She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray.• To stop Tootle from going astray, the townspeople get together and conceive ofa clever plan, in which they all participate.• Perhaps the most famous example of a re-creation gone astray took place in July 1989.• The problem is sometimes that parts go astray, which makes it impossible to reassemble the file.

2 lead somebody astray

a) to encourage someone to do bad or illegal things that they would not normally do 把某人引入歧途

The older boys led him astray.

那些年长的男孩子将他引入了歧途。

b) to make someone believe something that is not true 误导某人

It’s easy to be led astray by the reports in the papers.

人们很容易被报纸上的报道误导。

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lead somebody astray• Pfeiffer plays a virtuous woman who is led astray.• Parents complained that teachers were leading students astray by discussing contraception and abortion in the classroom.• They're afraid their son will be led astray by the older boys.• Gardeners shouldn't be led astray by these ideas.• Claudio is the false friend who leads Leonardo astray into drinking and gambling.

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astray• But their recording finds them in less than top form, and Solti sometimes leads them astray.• He says that when burning oak powder it's possible that a spark could have gone astray.• She said that sensible people weren't led astray by infatuation.• In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities.• Conversations with Maisie had a habit of going astray like this.

Origin astray

(1200-1300) Old French estraié “wandering”, from estraier; → STRAY1

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