mistake英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An error.

— There were too many mistakes in the test, that unfortunately you failed.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

动词 v.

To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. transitive

— Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
To misunderstand (someone). obsolete,transitive

— Miſtake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out.
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong. intransitive,obsolete

— Impoſe me to what penance your inuention / Can lay vpon my ſinne, yet ſinn’d I not / But in miſtaking.

Synthesis of the English Language (Charles Saville): English Text with Opposite French Translation
To take or choose wrongly. obsolete,rare

— The better act of purposes mistook / Is to mistake again; though indirect, / Yet indirection thereby grows direct,

词形变化

mistakes present,singular,third-person mistaking participle,present mistook past mistaken participle,past mistakes plural

词汇关系

衍生词

mistakability mistakable mistakeable mistake fare mistaker mistake windmills for giants unmistakable and no mistake by mistake calculated mistake category mistake honest mistake make a mistake make no mistake misfuck mistakeful mistakeless mistakeproof Wards Mistake

词源

词源 1

From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb. Compare Swedish misstag (“mistake”, noun), Faroese mistak (“mitake”, noun), Icelandic mistak (“mistake”, noun).

词源 2

From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga).
The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb. Compare Swedish misstag (“mistake”, noun), Faroese mistak (“mitake”, noun), Icelandic mistak (“mistake”, noun).