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misstep

/mis-step/US // mɪsˈstɛp //UK // (ˌmɪsˈstɛp) //

走错路,走错一步,走错了一步,走错路了

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wrong step.
    • : an error or slip in conduct; faux pas.

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Examples

  • The myriad missteps are laid bare in a report released by the Government Accountability Office in late January, which found that by summer 2020, most states still had not implemented the technology.

  • We have been putting a lot of thought into this area for years, watching various aspects such as the missteps taken by government and the unfortunate poor intentions from supposed investors.

  • It would have been easy to overlook a misstep from the face of the franchise, one of the league’s highest-paid players and a favorite of the team’s owner.

  • The early missteps in public health advice are particularly painful to recall, including assertions that asymptomatic people couldn’t spread the disease, and that masks weren’t needed.

  • Freedman and Madore, Riess’s chief rivals at the top of the distance ladder game, have argued in recent years that Cepheids foster possible missteps on higher rungs of the ladder.

  • Another memorable, if not disastrous, misstep, of course, was his turn as Batman in Batman and Robin.

  • But that misstep is a minor blip in an otherwise stellar premiere.

  • After that misstep, though, Gingrey went on to give the world of public health a great deal to cheer about.

  • Why did the show's proudly all-singing, all-dancing host misstep right from the moment of his bizarre jumping opening number?

  • But even Jesselyn Radack, one of Snowden's American lawyers, instantly acknowledged that the interchange was a misstep.

  • She had been mortified by the misstep, but the misstep made, only one thought had occurred to her—to help him all she could.

  • A misstep upon an icy flag-stone had resulted in a sprained ankle, and for that there was no remedy but patience.

  • Most men, he acknowledged, would feel the strain, where one misstep or one small mistake might undo the work of months.

  • Now prove that I did not overpraise you; for a misstep means, perhaps, a broken leg.

  • Looking up at him, I made a misstep, and came near dropping a portion of my burden.