单词 | mistake |
释义 | mis·take I. transitive verb 1. < ambition quite mistakes her road — Edward Young > < mistook the track across the moors, and led the army into boggy ground — T.B.Macaulay > 2. a. < don't mistake me; I will do exactly as I say > < had mistaken the meaning of her question — Carson McCullers > b. < mistook the class structure and ownership distribution of developed capitalism — Peter Wiles > c. < they mistake their man if they think they can frighten me > 3. a. < there's no mistaking him > < there's no mistaking that house > b. < mistake gush for vigor and substitute rhetoric for imagination — C.D.Lewis > < could be and often was mistaken for a farmer — H.S.Canby > 4. < somehow mistook the hour … I had told her nine o'clock, and she came at ten — Mary R. Rinehart > intransitive verb < you mistook when you thought I laughed at you — Thomas Hardy > < if I mistake not … the entire import of the illustration changes — John Dewey > • mis·tak·er II. 1. < it is a mistake to think that the supreme or legislative power of a commonwealth can do what it will — John Locke > < it is a great mistake to think that the bare scientific idea is the required invention — A.N.Whitehead > 2. < it would be a mistake, however, to drain all bogs — Boy Scout Handbook > < gave him a ten-dollar bill in mistake for a one > 3. law Synonyms: see error • - and no mistake |
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