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To miscount is to get the number wrong: you count the people, the votes, the coins, and the total is not the true total. It can be an honest slip — you skip one, you count one twice — or, more rarely, a charged claim that the counting was done badly on purpose. There is also a noun, a miscount, meaning the wrong total itself. It is an ordinary, clear word; you will hear it with money, scores, and especially votes. It is not the same as miscalculate, which can mean the whole sum or the thinking was wrong, not only the counting one by one. Though actually, after a close election, people say miscount when they mean any mess in the tally, even if the real problem was a machine, a rule, or a pile of papers, not a person pointing at things and slipping.
數錯;清點錯誤(人頭、票、錢等)
原始詞典資料2 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。
miscountverb/mɪsˈkaʊnt/
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To count incorrectly.
miscountnoun/ˈmɪskaʊnt/
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An incorrect counting.
- To bait the mark, the veteran grifter initially covers one of the three numbers on the clothespin or miscounts the marble tally which serves to award the mark fairbanked points. The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.
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。