1.不得发表的;不可以公开的;非正式的
1.used for saying that a remark is not official or not intended to be made public
1."Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to talk about this on or off the record, " he said.
他说，“很遗憾，不管是公开、还是私下，我都不能谈论这件事。”
2.Though I think this probably must be said off the record, I make a movie of a man who developed a weapon of the war.
尽管我觉得可能不应该在这里提到这个：这个电影是关于一个研发战争武器的男人的。
3.It would not take long for word of that to filter back. So I made it clear to them that I was talking off the record.
那一类的话不要多久就会传回去，所以我明确地向他们表示，我的谈话是非正式的。
4.Well, I wish I could've told you back at the time, but all of it was put off the record until after the election.
好的，我希望我能在那时告诉你，但所有这些消息都被扣押到选举结束后发布。
5.I am not going to say who he was as he insisted that the occasion should be strictly off-the-record: for background only.
我不会透露他的姓名，因为他一再要求我不要把那次会面的内容写成文章发表：只能用于背景描述。
6.They were all expansive on the topic, and all wanted to stay off the record, for fear of offending people in Washington.
他们对这个主题都侃侃而谈，希望与记录保持距离，担心得罪华府的人。
7.What he was about to say, he told the reporters, was strictly off the record.
他给记者打招呼说，他下面要说的绝对不要见报。
8.Cryptographer, privacy expert, and professor; one of the designers of Off-the-Record Messaging.
密码学家，信息保密（privacy）专家，教授；Off-the-RecordMessaging的设计者之一。
9.You know all about Van De Kaap. Help me out. Off the record.
你知道范德卡所有的事，帮帮我，不会泄露的。
10.Strictly off the record, the company is in serious trouble.
私下告诉你吧，公司陷入严重困境了。