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前置詞句

off the track

1. Derailed, of a railway carriage, etc.
2. Away from the proper subject; irrelevant, unrelated.
   • 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Toys for kinky girls and boys—It’s not just whips and chains anymore.” (chapter 3), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 53:

     I shall have to tell Ralphie of this, lest he get any ideas. ¶ Okay, I’ve gotten completely off the track, so let’s get back to Earl, who had run into a roadblock in his desire to administer wedgies.

3. Not on right course; inaccurate.
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 6:

     As for great men and kings being History's slaves, I think Tolstoi was off the track. Don't kid youself, kings are the most sublime sick. Manic Depressive heroes pull Mankind into their cycles and carry everybody away.