mistaking

n.错误；误会；过失

v.误解；弄错

His costly mistake resulted in severe loss. 他的严重的错误导致了重大的损失。

You've made several grammatical mistakes in the composition. 你的作文中犯了几处语法错误。

Tom must have taken your dictionary by mistake. 汤姆一定是弄错了才拿了你的字典。

He felt mortified for his mistake. 他对自己的过失深感羞愧。

That mistake has undone all our previous good work. 那个过错使我们前功尽弃。

You mistook my meaning entirely. 你完全误解了我的意思。

I used to mistake his reserve for haughtiness. 我过去常把他的沉默寡言误以为高傲。

I mistook the number and went to the wrong room. 我记错了号码,走错了房间。

Mother looks so young that people often mistake her for my sister. 母亲看上去非常年轻,人们经常把她误认为是我的姐姐。

mistake的基本意思是“错误,过失”,词义笼统,使用广泛,可指没有做对或做得不好的事物,也可指错误的想法或见解,还可指“误解”或“误会”。mistake多由认识或判断上的错误或粗心、遗忘所致。常用于语法、词汇、拼写、计算、行为、决策等。

mistake后可接介词短语、动词不定式、现在分词作定语。接about表示“关于…的错误”,接in表示“某方面的错误”。

“犯错误”不说do a mistake,而说make a mistake; “错误地”不说for mistake,而说by mistake。

mistake的基本意思是把某人〔事物〕给“弄错”了,也可作“认不出”解,引申可表示“误解”“歪曲”了某人的意思或意图。

mistake既可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,可接名词、代词或以疑问词引导的从句作宾语。

mistake后接about或in可表示“弄错”“看错”,接for可表示“错看成”“错认为”。

mistake还常用于There be no mistaking ... 句式中,意为“不会看〔听〕不出来…”,后面可接名词、代词或以疑问词引导的从句。

构成否定, mistake有时可以不借助do〔does,did〕,如习语If I mistake not,尤其用在口语中。

mistake是take衍生的反义词,可是,有时却可以通用。例如: He mistook me for my brother.他把我错当成我的兄弟了。When he saw me this morning, he tookme for my brother.他今天早晨碰见我时,他把我错当成我的兄弟了。