off the rails

常见例句

People go off the rails in times of recession.
人们在不景气时出轨。
There are so many ways a first conversation can run off the rails – a misinterpreted word, an inappropriate joke, a whopper of a prejudice.
两个人初次见面就脱轨的情况有多种方式：比如误解了对方的话；开了一个不恰当的玩笑；对某事有很大的成见等等。
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.
正是通过这些事实的积累和重复，画出了这幅极其真实可信的出轨社会的肖像画。

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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