Stray

(noun.) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal).

(verb.) wander from a direct course or at random; 'The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her'; 'don't drift from the set course'.

(adj.) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home; 'a stray calf'; 'a stray dog' .

校对:马尔科姆

• At least, he says so; but I shouldn't wonder if he was to stop here over Sunday, and stray that way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is only the blood of a poor little stray dog. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I wish my first day at Blackwater Park had not been associated with death, though it is only the death of a stray animal. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My master will be against it, and he'll be beat, and see me beat, and made to fear his home, and perhaps to stray wild. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn,' says a contemporary, 'and there were none left who could drive them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were on the borders of Oxfordshire, so far had poor old Betty Higden strayed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The poor creature had strayed into the plantation, and had been shot by your keeper. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Instead of re-entering the house, they strayed through the garden, the ladies walking one on each side of Mr. Hall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I suppose the creature strayed into the plantations, and got shot. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• We came by again, within the hour, and he was taking account of stock, to see whether any of his flock had strayed or been stolen. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She played till Fanny's eyes, straying to the window on the weather's being evidently fair, spoke what she felt must be done. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It must be awful to be sleepless--everything stands by the bed and stares---- Miss Farish caught her straying hands. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He tried both, but both confused him equally, and he came straying back to the same spot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was a thin wisp of his hair straying on his forehead, she noticed that his skin was of a clear brown colour, his hands, his wrists. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But under the straying voice, what a persistent, almost insane WILL! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• My father was an Englishman; but my mother--We are straying away from our subject, Mr. Blake; and it is my fault. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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