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mistakenly

/mi-stey-kuhn/US // mɪˈsteɪ kən //UK // (mɪˈsteɪkən) //

误以为,误解,误认为,错误地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
    • : erroneous; incorrect; wrong: a mistaken answer.
    • : having made a mistake; being in error.

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Examples

  • The myth that sipping liquor will warm you up is a mistaken perception.

  • It took a while, but in 1543 Copernicus made a strong case for Aristotle being mistaken.

  • The events in Michigan show how dangerous these mistaken understandings of the Constitution can be.

  • It can be treated if diagnosed early enough, but that’s a notoriously hard task because its symptoms are easily mistaken for signs of something else.

  • In other words, your adviser was mistaken, and you had an opportunity to show them up.

  • Will had mistakenly connected the pathway of infection in a hospital room with someone coughing or sneezing circulating in public.

  • Most of the meddlers in our lives do it to gratify their own egos or because they mistakenly believe they are helping.

  • This kind of prejudice harms innocent people, whether Muslim or mistakenly thought to be Muslim.

  • Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article mistakenly referred to thousands of overdoses as deaths.

  • Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly said Miller has posted to Stormfront.org.

  • Let me now tell you the kind of man I have sometimes, though possibly mistakenly, supposed myself to be.

  • It was only a question of the status of a person who mistakenly denies these true beliefs.

  • The royal Governor was not supreme as we now sometimes mistakenly assume.

  • Girards voice over it later had been mistakenly understood to promise an immediate ending of the mystery.

  • They were paying him a military compliment, however mistakenly, and he must return it.