go off the rails

基本解释

The one real novelty, nuclear power, went spectacularly off the rails.
核动力是唯一真正新奇的事物，它却令人震惊地偏离了轨道。
Neither side was prepared to cope with an economy that went off the rails despite the Fed's best efforts.
任何一方都对“联储已然尽力，而经济依然脱轨”之经济现象毫无准备。
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Mark McKinnon, chief campaign media adviser to George W. Bush: My view is that civility was a heartfelt, well-intended objective that went right off the rails the day of the recount.
Mark McKinnon 布什首席竞选新闻顾问：我的观点是，在重新计票的混乱中，做到谦逊有礼是我们的一个善意的可以被感知的目标。

In August 2004 the company's forecast went off the rails and MatchNet had an unexpected loss.
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Near the end of 1999, the Federal Reserve went off the rails again under Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.
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But here is where it went off the rails.
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to start behaving in a way that is not generally acceptable, especially dishonestly or illegally