mistake

英[m?'ste?k] 美[m?'stek]

復(fù)數(shù):?mistakes;第三人稱單數(shù):?mistakes;過去式:?mistook;過去分詞:?mistaken;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mistaking;

1、mis- "wrongly" + take.
2、字面含義：take in error, take wrongly.

mistake 錯(cuò)誤，失誤

mis-,壞的，錯(cuò)的，不好的，take,采取手段。即采取錯(cuò)誤手段，引申詞義錯(cuò)誤，失誤。

mistake: mistake: [13] Mistake originally meant literally ‘take in error, take the wrong thing’. It was borrowed from Old Norse mistaka, a compound verb formed from the prefix mis- ‘wrongly’ and taka ‘take’. This sense survived in English for some time (‘to be ever busy, and mistake away the bottles and cans … before they be but half drunk of’, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair 1614), but gradually through the late Middle English period the notion of ‘error’ came to the fore (it was already present in the Old Norse verb, which was used reflexively for ‘go wrong’, and was probably reinforced by Old French mesprendre, literally ‘take wrongly’, which was also used for ‘err’).

The noun use, ‘error’, emerged in the 17th century.
=> take
mistake (v.): early 14c., "to commit an offense;" late 14c., "to misunderstand, misinterpret," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse mistaka "take in error, miscarry," from mis- "wrongly" (see mis- (1)) + taka "take" (see take (v.)). Related: Mistook; mistaking.
mistake (n.): 1630s, from mistake (v.). Meaning "unintended pregnancy" is from 1957.

1. The president beat his breast and called that deal a mistake.: 總裁捶胸頓足，稱那是個(gè)錯(cuò)誤的交易。

2. This was a genuine mistake, but it did cause me some worry.: 這是好心辦錯(cuò)事，可是確實(shí)讓我擔(dān)心了一陣子。

3. Could you have given them the wrong drug by mistake?: 你有沒有可能一時(shí)疏忽給錯(cuò)他們藥了呢？

4. I may have made a mistake in that regard.: 我在那一點(diǎn)上可能已經(jīng)犯了一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤。

5. What women mistake as thoughtlessness is often just diffidence.: 女性誤以為是考慮不周的事情往往只是缺乏自信。