| 释义 |
‖ mal-entendu, a. and n.|malɑ̃tɑ̃dy|
[Fr., f. mal ill + entendu understood.]
†a. adj. Mistaken, misapprehended. Obs.
b. n. A misunderstanding.
1616Raleigh Let. in E. Edwards Life (1868) II. Introd. p. lxii, I take it..for a libertie mal entendu to be removed out of this steddy Tower into a rowling shipp. 1780H. Walpole Lett. (1858) VII. 448 By some mal-entendu it was packed up in his heavy baggage. 1824Heber Narrative (1828) II. xvi. 127, I suspect that several mal-entendus of this kind have occurred. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 217 Things culminated in a stupid mal-entendu with the Times correspondent. |