词汇精选:mistake的用法和辨析
一、详细释义:
n.
(言语或行为上的)错误,失误
例句:
An alert pharmacist will save a doctor from his own mistake by querying a prescription.
警惕性很高的药剂师对处方提出疑问而避免了医生的错误。
例句:
Don't jeer at the mistake of others.
不要对别人的错误嘲笑。
(用词或数字等上的)错误,口误,笔误
例句:
Please rectify the mistake in my bill.
请改正我帐单上的错误。
【习】(no mistake) 准确无误;毫无疑问
例句:
If you don't improve your behavior, you'll be punished; make no mistake about it.
要是不改正你的行为,你将受到惩罚,这是毫无疑问的。
例句:
Make no mistake about it, you're bound to have an accident if you drive so fast down the motorway.
毫无疑问,你要是在公路上开得这样快,准会出事。
【习】(by mistake) 错误地,无意中
例句:
You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake.
你那神气好象是被谁在你脸上无意中坐了一下子似的。
例句:
I took your pen by mistake.
我错拿了你的钢笔。
v.
误会;误解;看错
例句:
You must have mistaken my intentions.
你一定是误会了我的意图了。
例句:
She mistook the number and went to the wrong room.
她记错号码,走错了房间。
二、词义辨析:
error,fault,blunder,flaw,mistake,shortcoming,defect,slip
这些名词均有“错误”或“缺点”之意。error指思想或行动背离正题轨道或没有得到正确指引而出现的偏差或错误。fault一般指小并且可宽容的缺点、错误。blunder通常指由于无知或情况不明造成判断或行动上的大错。flaw指结构或组织上的缺点,如破裂之处。用作比喻意义时,指品格上的缺陷。mistake最普通用词,泛指思想上、行为上或认识上的判断或理解方面的错误。shortcoming指没有达到所要求的标准、没有充分发展或没尽到职责的不足、缺点或短处。多用复数形式。 defect普通用词。指表面上的缺陷,或指人或物本质上的缺点。slip指因疏忽或无意而造成的差错。
三、参考例句:
The mistake is beyond remedy.
这个错误是无法补救的。
He made that mistake unconsciously.
他无意中犯了那个错误。
There must be some mistake.
一定是出了什么错。
The mistake was beyond remedy.
这个错误已经无法补救。
He made a big mistake.
他犯了一个大错。
I made the same mistake again.
我又一次犯了同样的错误。
His costly mistake resulted in severe loss.
他的严重的错误导致了重大的损失。
His mistake resulted in severe loss.
他的错误导致了重大的损失。
It is a mistake in translation.
那是一个翻译错误。
Please rectify the mistake in my bill.
请改正我账单上的错误。