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When someone misbehaves, they act badly: they break the rules of how people expect you to act, and they cause trouble or others. We use it most with children — a child who shouts, hits, throws things, or will not listen is misbehaving. Adults can misbehave too, though for serious adult wrongs we often reach for stronger words (cheat, offend, break the law). The word points at the behaviour in that moment, not at the person as a whole, so it is a little softer than calling someone “bad.” Parents, teachers, and school reports use it a lot. The past is misbehaved.
行為不端;搗蛋、調皮(多指小孩)
組成mis- (badly, wrongly) + behave (act in a certain way). From Middle English misbehaven.
同家族的字
- behavethe base verb; mis- turns it into “behave badly”
- misbehaviourthe noun (British spelling; US misbehavior)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
misbehaveverb
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To act or behave in an inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected manner.
- He doesn't mean to misbehave; he just doesn't know better.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。