| 词汇 | straying |
| 释义 | straying present participle ofstray 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 astray black hole disappear escape 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 Examples of strayingstraying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Losses caused by predators (mainly hyenas attacking straying animals) were responsible for 6-9 % of calf losses. At the risk of straying too far afield, let me provide some background on mathematical learning theory. These also failed to protect enclosing farmers against travelling stock straying off the path and mingling with their own animals while crossing their land. Second, they acknowledged that the president had grown more comfortable in straying away from prepared remarks and speaking from the gut. All this is of one solid block, and any accidental straying must either be ignored or cause its total collapse. 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. Rumors about ' already dead military men ' abounded in the 1940s, and contributed to many young wives straying. 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. Heaven, relieve the anguish of one who is poised between infamy and death; take pity, illuminate the gates of salvation to my straying foot. Klein is occasionally less surefooted when straying outside the strict confines of his subject. 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. Blainey (1982: 184-5) adds problems of straying stock and new technology of iron and steel wire in his explanation of the start of fencing. 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 I am perhaps straying wide of the present amendment and touching upon one we are about to discuss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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