| 词组 | mistake |
| 释义 | mistake A mistake is something incorrect or unfortunate that someone does, such as spelling a word wrongly. You say that someone makes a mistake. He had made a terrible mistake. We made the mistake of leaving our bedroom window open. You do not say that someone 'does' a mistake. ◊ 'fault' You do not use mistake to refer to something wrong in a machine or structure. The word you use is fault. There's usually a fault in one of the appliances. The machine has developed a fault. ◊ 'in mistake for' If someone has taken something when they intended to take something else, you say that they took the first thing in mistake for the second thing. I had taken Ewen Waite's gun in mistake for my own. You can use in mistake for in a similar way with several other verbs. The root of aconite has frequently been eaten in mistake for that of horseradish. ◊ 'by mistake' However, you do not say that someone does something 'in mistake'. You say that they do it by mistake. I once burst into his bedroom by mistake. Griffiths thought he had been sent there by mistake. |
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