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单词 astray
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astray

adverb
/əˈstreɪ/
/əˈstreɪ/
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘distant from the correct path’): from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French estraie, past participle of estraier, based on Latin extra ‘out of bounds’ + vagari ‘wander’.
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go astray
  1. to become lost; to be stolen
    • Several letters went astray or were not delivered.
    • We locked up our valuables so they would not go astray.
  2. to go in the wrong direction or to have the wrong result
    • Fortunately the gunman's shots went astray.
    • The argument is so complex, a reader might easily go astray.
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2
lead somebody astray
  1. to make somebody go in the wrong direction or do things that are wrong
    • Jack's parents thought the other boys might lead him astray.
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