| 单词 | error |
| 释义 | er·ror 1. a. < entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from … error — 2 Pet 2:18 (Revised Standard Version) > : offense, fault < the official's errors of nepotism and acceptance of large gifts from lobbyists > b. < made an error in adding up the bill > < gunnery errors > c. < got lost when he made the error of turning left at the fork > < an error of judgment > < the error of writing last year's date early in January > as (1) < an error is charged against a fielder at the discretion of the official scorer > (2) (3) d. (1) (2) (3) 2. a. < the firm is in error as to the facts of the case > < the map is in error regarding the junction > b. Christian Science < error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life are existent in matter — Mary B. Eddy > c. < an opposite error … is the belief that children are naturally virtuous — Bertrand Russell > d. < hope to reduce error by promoting education > 3. < a typographical error > specifically 4. archaic < brooks rolling with mazy error — John Milton > 5. a. mathematics b. in artillery fire c. < weights used to determine the error of a scale > < the allowable error in milling a machine part is called its tolerance > 6. < an error in vision may cause headaches > Synonyms: < the errors in their beliefs > < an error in reasoning > < it is a common error to speak of the doctrine of science when what is meant is naturalism — W.R.Inge > < an error in addition > < sent by error to the wrong department > mistake suggests a misunderstanding, wrong decision, or inadvertent wrong action; it may apply to the unimportant or momentary but does not always do so < a mistake in reading the road map > < a mistake in admitting these students > < a mistake in copying the list > blunder may imply ignorance, stupidity, or culpable lack of foresight and care < fortunate to be acquitted by a court-martial after he had made a tragic blunder and lost many of his own men — Peter Forster > < we usually call our blunders mistakes and our friends style our mistakes blunders — H.B.Wheatley > slip may apply to a trivial readily forgivable mistake, inadvertence, or accident < a slip of the pen > < a list such as a busy and not very well educated library clerk might make, with many slips and grammatical mistakes — R.W.Southern > lapse may suggest forgetfulness, inattention, or weakness < you gave natives bits to copy under all possible threats against lapses of accuracy, only to discover at the end that they had embroidered the work pleasantly to their own fancy — Mary Austin > faux pas now usually indicates a social blunder as a violation of etiquette or an instance of tactlessness < John and I, horrified, hustled him out before he could commit any further faux pas — S.H.Adams > bull usually applies to a blunder marked by stupidity although it is often applied to a remark purposely contrived to contain an amusing incongruity < the well-known bull stating that “as one man is just as good as another — and sometimes more so” > < “the next train to Dublin has just gone”, the stationmaster said and laughed at his own bull > howler usually applies to a ludicrous blunder made through ignorance or dim-wittedness < a schoolboy howler that turns the title “Intimations of Immortality” into “Imitations of Immorality” > < refused to go on a quiz show for fear he'd make howlers > boner suggests a blunder made through thoughtlessness as well as dim-wittedness < made the boner of inviting his boss to dinner on the night his wife's bridge group was due to meet at his house > < pulled a real boner when he said the American Civil War was in the 18th century > |
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