- 1與黨不同調；脫稿
When a politician is off-message, they say something that does not match what their party wants people to hear. Parties usually agree on a few lines — a “message” — and everyone is supposed to repeat those lines on TV and in interviews. If someone wanders away from that, reporters say they went off-message. It is not always a huge fight with the party; sometimes it is just one careless sentence. Though actually, news writers love this word, and they sometimes use it when the person only sounded a little different, not when they truly changed sides. You will meet it in talk about elections and government, not at the dinner table. It feels like inside-the-news English: the people who write about use it more than ordinary speakers. The opposite is on-message: staying tightly with the party’s lines.
off-message 形容政治人物脫稿，說的話和政黨希望大家聽到的不一樣。政黨通常會先定好幾句重點，大家在電視和受訪時都要重複這些說法。如果有人偏離了這些重點，記者就會說他「went off-message」。這不一定是跟黨大吵一架，有時只是一句不小心的話。
新聞記者很愛用這個詞，有時候只是講得稍微不一樣，還不到真的站到另一邊。它是選舉和政府新聞裡的用語，平常吃飯聊天很少聽到。相反的是「on-message」，表示緊緊跟著黨的說法。
組成off- (away from) + message (the party’s official lines).
同家族的字
- on-messagethe opposite: staying with the party’s lines
- messagehere, the party’s official lines, not a text on your phone
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
off-messageadj
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