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    Misleadingly describes the way something is done, said, or made when the effect is to give people a false picture. The key idea is indirect: a thing does not have to contain a lie. Every single word can be true, and the impression the listener walks away with is still wrong — because something important was left out, or made to look bigger or smaller than it is, or placed where it suggests the wrong connection. Because it is an adverb, it attaches to a verb or an adjective. Two patterns cover most of what you will see. It sits before a past participle: misleadingly labelled, misleadingly named, misleadingly worded, misleadingly presented, misleadingly titled. And it sits before an adjective: misleadingly simple (looks easy, is not), misleadingly small, misleadingly calm. That second pattern is worth a moment, because it is not really about anyone lying. "The exam was misleadingly easy at the start" — nobody deceived you; the exam just gave a false first impression. "His voice was misleadingly gentle." English uses the adverb there simply to mean the appearance and the reality do not match. Where you meet it: consumer news, advertising rules, science writing, product packaging, reports. It is a formal-ish word and it carries a mild accusation, so writers reach for it when they want to criticise something's presentation without going as far as calling it a lie — which is exactly why it is so common in careful journalism and in legal language, where saying "falsely" would be a much stronger and riskier claim.

    誤導性地、令人誤會地(東西本身不一定是假的,但給人的印象是錯的)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成misleading + -ly. And misleading is mis- (wrongly) + lead (to guide someone along a way) + -ing. So the whole picture is: in a way that guides you down the wrong road. That road image is really there in the word — you are not pushed, you are led, and you go willingly.

同家族的字

  • misleadthe verb at the heart of it — to lead someone to a wrong belief
  • misleadingthe adjective this adverb is built from
  • leadthe root verb — to guide someone along a way
  • leadersame lead root — the one who goes in front

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。

misleadinglyadv

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    In a misleading manner.

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