off the rails

常见例句

People go off the rails in times of recession.
人們在不景氣時出軌。
There are so many ways a first conversation can run off the rails – a misinterpreted word, an inappropriate joke, a whopper of a prejudice.
兩個人初次見麪就脫軌的情況有多種方式：比如誤解了對方的話；開了一個不恰儅的玩笑；對某事有很大的成見等等。
It is through the accumulation and indeed repetition of such things that this utterly convincing portrait of a society driven far off the rails is drawn.
正是通過這些事實的積累和重複，畫出了這幅極其真實可信的出軌社會的肖像畫。

In August 2004 the company's forecast went off the rails and MatchNet had an unexpected loss.
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Whether he can any longer tell a story without sliding off the rails is another matter.
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But then it goes a bit off the rails by highlighting that one of them can be Powerpoint.
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