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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ mistaken mis·taken / mi5steikEn / adjective1. [not usually before noun] ~ (about sb / sth) wrong in your opinion or judgement 错误；不正确: You are completely mistaken about Jane. 你对简的看法完全错了。 Unless I'm very much mistaken, that's Paul's wife over there. 要是我没太弄错的话,那边那个就是保罗的妻子。 2. based on a wrong opinion or bad judgement 判断错误的；被误解的 SYN misguided :
mistaken views / ideas 错误的观点/想法 I told her my secret in the mistaken belief that I could trust her. 我误以为可以相信她,就把我的秘密告诉了她。 • mis·taken·ly adv.: He mistakenly believed that his family would stand by him. 他误以为他的家人会支持他。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English mistaken adj. VERBS be, prove ADV. badly, gravely, profoundly, sadly, seriously, very (much) You are very much mistaken if you think that people will agree to these changes. | completely, quite, utterly, wholly | somehow PREP. about I think you're mistaken about the time. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Edition adj. Function: adjective acting, thinking, or judging in a manner at variance with truth or the facts FF1C;he is mistaken in his evaluation of the crisisFF1E; Synonyms: erroneous, misguided, wrong Related Words: confounded, confused; deceived, deluded, misinformed Idioms: all wet, off base, off the track Contrasted Words: accurate, correct, right, unerring; exact, precise Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged mistaken adjective Etymology: from past participle of mistake (I) 1. : misunderstood , misconceived < a case of mistaken identity > 2. : having a wrong opinion or incorrect information < is mistaken in his ideas about education > < it is both unfair and immoral to charge perjury against a man who is only mistaken — L.P.Stryker > 3. : wrong in action or thought : erroneous , misguided < the psychologist is as much interested in mistaken behavior as in correct behavior — G.A.Miller > < his mistaken venture into poetic drama — H.V.Gregory > < correct some of the mistaken ideas about farming — C.R.Hope > • mis·tak·en·ly adverb • mis·tak·en·ness \-kən(n)ə̇s\ noun -es |
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