strays

英 [streɪz]

美 [streɪz]

v.  迷路; 偏离; 走失; 偏离正题; 走神; 离题; 有外遇; 在别处拈花惹草
stray的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 迷路;偏离;走失
  If someonestrayssomewhere, they wander away from where they are supposed to be.
  1. Tourists often get lost and stray into dangerous areas...
     游客常会迷路并误入危险区域。
  2. Crews stray outside to film the view from the pavement...
     工作人员移到人行道上拍摄这一景色。
  3. A railway line crosses the park so children must not be allowed to stray.
     有一条铁路横穿该公园，因此必须禁止小孩子在附近闲逛。
• ADJ (狗、猫)走失的，迷路的，无主的
  Astraydog or cat has wandered away from its owner's home.
  1. A stray dog came up to him.
     一条野狗走近他。
  2. ...a refuge for stray cats.
     流浪猫收容所
  3. Strayis also a noun.
     
  4. The dog was a stray which had been adopted.
     这是条曾被收养的流浪狗。
• VERB 走神;(视线)偏离，往别处看
  If your mind or your eyesstray, you do not concentrate on or look at one particular subject, but start thinking about or looking at other things.
  1. Even with the simplest cases I find my mind straying...
     即使在处理最简单的案例时我也老走神。
  2. She could not keep her eyes from straying towards him.
     她不由自主地瞟向他。
• ADJ 零星的;离散的;散落的
  You usestrayto describe something that exists separated from other similar things.
  1. An 8-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet...
     一名 8 岁男孩儿被流弹打死。
  2. She shrugged a stray lock of hair out of her eyes.
     她把一缕散发从眼前甩开。

双语例句

• The execution of 30 strays was put on hold when several employees refused to kill the dogs.
  好几位员工拒绝杀害狗儿，因此处死三十只流浪狗的计划暂时搁置。
• Darn it! Right away he strays off the subject.
  该死！他马上就偏离主题。
• The farmer is looking for strays.
  农夫正在寻找那些离群的牲畜。
• My owner does not give scraps to common strays.
  我家主人可不在乎那些迷路的猫。
• The dogs were strays that were starving.
  这些是饿极了的流浪狗。
• Its main social task was to integrate into the cat society& a group of above five strays we feed.
  它的主要社会任务就是把自己溶入他身边的猫的世界&一群我们所养的五只左右无家可归的猫。
• Despite typically living on their own in the wild, we have known for some time that cats come together when resources like food are concentrated in a single area, for example when people feed strays.
  众所周知，猫在野外会自力更生，我们也已经知道，当食物等生活资源在一个地区相对集中时，猫会聚众在一起，例如当人们喂养流浪猫群的时候。
• Why did he spend time with out-casts when he could have been golfing or watching TV? They are waifs and strays, and cast aways of society.
  他本可以把时间花在玩高尔夫球或看电视上的，为什么要与这些社会的弃儿呆在一起？
• When he lectures he often strays from the subject.
  他做起报告来往往东拉西扯，不着边际。
• To be sure, many view workaholism as a destructive addiction that requires treatment, just like alcoholism and drug addiction, as the workaholic strays from the work-life balance equation accepted by most of society.
  无可否认，许多人把工作狂看成一种有害的瘾，需要加以治疗，就像是酒瘾和毒瘾一样，因为工作狂偏离了社会上大多数人所接受的工作与生活的平衡方程。