"Make sure you are on track, don't just wait for things to go off the rails," she says.

她说：“要保证自己的方向正确，千万不要等到事情脱离正轨才去补救。”

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All the same, when a project is off the rails, everyone is usually aware of it, even if they don't know why.

尽管如此，当一个项目脱离正轨时，每个人都能意识到，即便不知道为什么会这样。

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Then there's the record-scratch sound, still used frequently in ads and comic scenes to indicate someone's train of thought going off the rails.

唱片的刮擦声现在还在广告和动画中出现，表现某人的思想脱轨了。

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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.

NEWYORKER: Antichrist

But when it devised the financial structure of the project, the government went off the rails.

ECONOMIST: Project finance in Taiwan