The telescope was pointing in the wrong direction.

望远镜对错了方向。

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About 15 minutes down the motorway, out of the blue, he announced that I was heading in the wrong direction for Weymouth.

在高速公路上开了大约15分钟后，他突然宣布我往错误的方向去了韦茅斯。

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United Airlines has apologized for mistakenly shipping an American family's pet dog thousands of miles in the wrong direction to Japan.

美国联合航空公司错将一家美国人的宠物狗运到了数千英里外错误方向的日本，该公司已为此事道歉。

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By using unnatural light, the insects traveled in the wrong direction.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

So, if you want to attack urban air quality, this is probably moving in the wrong direction, OK?

所以如果你想攻击都市的空气质量，这可能是一个错误的方向，对吗？

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"Those who say it is going in the wrong direction, they say corruption and insecurity are the primary reasons for this."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Do you think the country is headed in the right or the wrong direction?

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U.S. fiscal policy has been going in the wrong direction for a very long time.

WSJ: David Ranson: The Revenue Limits of Tax and Spend

Kepler shut itself down after it was pointing in the wrong direction, Sobeck said.

CNN: Planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft in trouble