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amiss

/uh-mis/US // əˈmɪs //UK // (əˈmɪs) //

不对,不对劲,错了,错

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : out of the right or proper course, order, or condition; improperly; wrongly; astray: Did I speak amiss?
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    • : improper; wrong; faulty: I think something is amiss in your calculations.

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Examples

  • If the IRS were to discover something amiss, under the bill’s proposed statute of limitations it would be too late to act.

  • This is where the drugs and the violence come in, though for the majority of the four episodes sent for review, Kevin remains blissfully unaware that anything is amiss.

  • Although the Yankees’ bats came alive against the struggling Minnesota Twins this week, something is amiss in New York that goes deeper than just sloppy fundamentals.

  • If the state population data is significantly different from projections, that could be a hint of something amiss.

  • Sensing something is amiss, Curdin travels to the remote mountain village nestled in the Swiss Alps.

  • Something is clearly amiss in the global antiquities market.

  • He did not suspect anything was amiss until he returned home that evening and found them gone.

  • They wonder what has gone wrong, they wonder what they have done amiss.

  • All of this happened in daylight, and controllers were aware that something was amiss.

  • There seems to be a prevalent feeling that something is amiss at Apple.

  • He saw in an instant that something was amiss, and drew from her a confession that her back was aching a little.

  • Although it is impossible, within the limits of this little volume, to give many hints upon riding, a few may not be amiss.

  • It seems to me, amongst the subjects treated of in my present work, that a few words on health will not come amiss.

  • But as the day wore on it became plain to everybody at Heston—to Roger first and foremost—that something was much amiss.

  • And as the days went on it grew plain to me that there was somewhat amiss about the court here.