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    A misconstruction is a wrong reading of something: you take the words, or the act, to mean the wrong thing. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned noun; lawyers and careful writers still use it. It sits close to , though actually misconstruction often sounds as if the meaning was built , like a sentence put together on the wrong plan. In older grammar books it can also mean a sentence whose parts are joined , but the sense here is the mistaken understanding, not a brick wall put up badly. Most students will meet the verb misconstrue far more often than this noun. If someone says “open to misconstruction,” they mean the words could honestly be read more than one way — so the fault may be in the wording, not only in the listener.

    曲解;誤解(偏書面;比 misunderstanding 更正式)

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組成mis-(錯)+ construction(建構;這裡指把意思組起來的方式)。即 mis- + construction。

同家族的字

  • constructionhow something is built, or how a meaning is put together
  • constructthe verb to build
  • misconstruethe usual verb for taking someone's words the wrong way

原始詞典資料4 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。

misconstructionnoun

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    Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.

    • Our attention has been called to the possibility of misconstruction in our reply given under the above heading in the December issue concerning track circuit through busy stations normally entered at low speeds.
  • 2

    Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.

    • a misconstruction of the law
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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsMistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.

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    Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。