mistake

英 [mɪ'steɪk] 美 [mɪ'stek]

解释

※ 提供单词"mistake"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

mistake 错误，失误

mis-,坏的，错的，不好的，take,采取手段。即采取错误手段，引申词义错误，失误。

mistake: mistake: [13] Mistake originally meant literally ‘take in error, take the wrong thing’. It was borrowed from Old Norse mistaka, a compound verb formed from the prefix mis- ‘wrongly’ and taka ‘take’. This sense survived in English for some time (‘to be ever busy, and mistake away the bottles and cans … before they be but half drunk of’, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair 1614), but gradually through the late Middle English period the notion of ‘error’ came to the fore (it was already present in the Old Norse verb, which was used reflexively for ‘go wrong’, and was probably reinforced by Old French mesprendre, literally ‘take wrongly’, which was also used for ‘err’).

The noun use, ‘error’, emerged in the 17th century.
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mistake (v.): early 14c., "to commit an offense;" late 14c., "to misunderstand, misinterpret," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse mistaka "take in error, miscarry," from mis- "wrongly" (see mis- (1)) + taka "take" (see take (v.)). Related: Mistook; mistaking.
mistake (n.): 1630s, from mistake (v.). Meaning "unintended pregnancy" is from 1957.

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1. The president beat his breast and called that deal a mistake.: 总裁捶胸顿足，称那是个错误的交易。

2. This was a genuine mistake, but it did cause me some worry.: 这是好心办错事，可是确实让我担心了一阵子。

5. What women mistake as thoughtlessness is often just diffidence.: 女性误以为是考虑不周的事情往往只是缺乏自信。