| 词汇 | stray |
| 释义 | stray verb[ I ] uk /streɪ/ us /streɪ/ to travel along a route that was not originally intended, or to move outside a limited area: 偏离原路；越过限定区域 A herd of cattle had strayed into the road.一群牛偏了道，上了公路。 They got lost when they strayed too far from the path.他们偏离小路太远，迷了路。 The ship strayed off course during the storm.船在暴风雨中偏离了航道。 to start thinking or talking about a different subject from the one you should be giving attention to: 走神;偏离主题 I think we've strayed too far from our original plan.我想我们偏离原来的计划太远了。 Sorry - I've strayed from the subject.对不起——我跑题了。 Losing and loss action astray black hole disappear forfeit get to kiss lose loss lost mislay misplace misroute miss slip through someone's fingersidiom unaccounted for unrecoverable unrecovered walkabout wave You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Digressing and being indirect or evasive stray noun[ C ] uk /streɪ/ us /streɪ/ a pet that no longer has a home or cannot find its home: 流浪宠物；走失的宠物 a stray dog流浪狗 "Who owns that cat?" "I don't know. I think it must be a stray."那只猫是谁的?"我不知道。我觉得它肯定是只流浪猫。 General & informal words for animals alley cat anti-predator arthropod beast beastie bossy ESA feathered feathered friendidiom fluff ball four-legged friend fur baby furry man-eating marsupial myriapod pest pet predator water scorpion stray adjective[ before noun ] uk /streɪ/ us /streɪ/ Stray things have moved apart from similar things and are not in their expected or intended place: 零星的，零落的 There are still a few stray spots of paint on the window pane.窗玻璃上还有零星的几个油漆点儿。 Several journalists have been killed or injured by stray bullets while reporting on the civil war.有几位记者在报道内战时因被流弹打中而丧命或负伤。 Losing and loss action astray black hole disappear forfeit get to kiss lose loss lost mislay misplace misroute miss slip through someone's fingersidiom unaccounted for unrecoverable unrecovered walkabout wave stray | American Dictionarystray verb[ I ] us/streɪ/ strayverb[I] (MOVE AWAY)to move away from a place where you should be or from a direction in which you should go: The children were told to stay together and not to stray. The plane disappeared after straying several hundred miles off course. stray adjective[ not gradable ] us/streɪ/ strayadjective[not gradable] (LOST)(of an animal) having no home, or lost: Eric and Lise rescued the stray cat and named her Pashmina. Stray also means happening by chance and lacking direction: It was just a stray thought I had while washing the dishes. stray noun[ C ] us/streɪ/ straynoun[C] (LOST ANIMAL)an animal that is lost or has no home: We have given a home to a number of strays. Examples of straystray However, the social context strategy strayed from this pattern of distribution. Second, they acknowledged that the president had grown more comfortable in straying away from prepared remarks and speaking from the gut. Much acousmatic music strays in and out of transcontextual suggestions - the sounds of nature, the elements and environment are particularly common. Rumors about ' already dead military men ' abounded in the 1940s, and contributed to many young wives straying. Typical practice in commons grazing is for children to walk with the herds to monitor strays, deter theft, and return the animals at night. Hence, if reshuffles are possible, ministers' preferences for bigger budgets are tempered by a concern for not straying too far from the official party policy. We are straying into the shadowy area of musical and verbal identity, and the kinds of patterns of recognition that begin to enable us to construct such identities. On cycles, we are not interested in how far the walker strays from its starting point, but in the mixing properties of the distribution on the cycle. Higgins et al. discusses detecting when a student has written an essay that strays from the test question topic, which is critical to the evaluation of student writing. The standard methodological reading of the doubt is on the right track, but it strays from the path in treating certainty as the chief, or perhaps the only, methodological aim. A 'close' represented the spatial extent of property; a trespass (literally a transgression) could be perpetrated by animals straying across an imaginary line and entering the close. Gradually it became clear, however, that the king meant to restrain not only corantos that strayed into domestic policy or highly sensitive foreign negotiations, but all news. The fraction of intelligent races with sufficient technology and the desire to communicate is clearly an issue that strays from the purely physical and biological sciences into the social sciences. The purpose of the exclusion zone was to prevent aircraft and ships from straying into a possible danger area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both of us were called to order because we were straying wide of the subject of the debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of stray These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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