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单词 misconstrue
释义
misconstrue
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˌmɪs.kənˈstruː/us
/ˌmɪs.kənˈstruː/
toformafalseunderstandingof themeaningorintentionof something that someone does or says:
误解…的意思（或意图）
She said Harris had misconstrued hercomments.她说哈里斯误解了她的评论。
Theircautionwas misconstruedascowardice.他们的谨慎被误解为懦弱。
Synonyms
misinterpret
misunderstand
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Misunderstanding
  • cross purposes
  • disconnection
  • don't get me wrongidiom
  • forest
  • get the wrong end of the stickidiom
  • getyourwires crossedidiom
  • labour
  • misconceive
  • misconceived
  • misconception
  • misconstruction
  • misguided
  • miss the pointidiom
  • mistaken
  • misunderstand
  • misunderstanding
  • non-comprehension
  • not see the forest for the treesidiom
  • underestimate
  • wire
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(Definition ofmisconstruefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

misconstrue| American Dictionary

misconstrue
verb[T]
fml
us
/ˌmɪs·kənˈstru/
toformafalseunderstandingof themeaningorintentionof something that someone does or says:
Johnsoncomplainedthat hisstatementswere misconstrued.
(Definition ofmisconstruefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmisconstrue

misconstrue
It is also noted how measures introduced for one purpose may subsequently be misconstrued or diverted for a completely different purpose.
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When childrenmisconstruemetaphors, idioms, and proverbs, they often do so in terms of literal interpretations of their constituent words.
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The student did notice the teacher's corrective feedback but either misconstrued it or failed to make sense of it.
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The narrower view misconstrued the case's cultural conflicts as racial or ethnic and offered no resolution.
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The states that issue the license plate forbid taboo words, or anything anyone mightmisconstrueas such.
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The role of the ecological concept of information, especially in its specificational sense is also misconstrued.
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Written by current practitioners of social science, discipline history willfully misconstrued the past in the service of current disciplinary trends.
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But ethics experts are not well fitted to do this, and to ask them to do it is tomisconstruetheir role.
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There are reasons why localist models have been underused, though these oftenmisconstruethe localist position.
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However, this should not be misconstrued as an endorsement of this theory of constraint interaction.
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Variation is often misconstrued to be nonadaptive because it insures that many individuals will be less than optimally suited to the environment.
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This should not be misconstrued as proposing the usual division of the political and the religious.
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This objection misconstrues my argument, which is for the value of capitalism, not its justness.
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Yet to focus on political divisions is, in part, tomisconstruelocal understanding.
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I say 'only', but this must not be misconstrued.
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