astray
adverbWord OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘distant from the correct path’): from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French estraie, past participle of estraier, based on Latin extra ‘out of bounds’ + vagari ‘wander’.
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go astray
to become lost; to be stolen 丢失；被盗 to go in the wrong direction or to have the wrong result 走错方向；误入歧途 Fortunately the gunman's shots went astray. 幸好持枪歹徒把子弹打偏了。 The argument is so complex, a reader might easily go astray. 这个论点太复杂了，读者很容易误入歧途。
lead somebody astray