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To misplace something is to put it somewhere and then not be able to find it — you have lost it, but only for now, and you expect it to turn up. That expectation is the whole feeling of the word. If your keys are misplaced, they are in the flat somewhere; if they are lost, they may be gone for good. You will meet it most often in the past form or as the past participle: 'I've misplaced my glasses', 'the file was misplaced'. There is a second, quieter use: to put something in the wrong position on purpose or by error, as in 'a misplaced comma', 'the label was misplaced on the box'. And there is a third use, about feelings — misplaced trust, misplaced kindness — where you gave the feeling to someone who did not deserve it. It leans a little formal and a little gentle. In everyday speech people more often say 'I can't find my phone'; misplace sounds tidier, and offices and notices like it because it blames nobody: 'your form has been misplaced' is softer than 'we lost your form'.
一時找不到、放錯地方（東西還在，只是忘了放哪）
組成mis- 'wrongly' + place. So: to place something wrongly.
同家族的字
- misplacedthe adjective made from this verb — misplaced trust, a misplaced comma
- misspellsame mis- 'wrongly' joined to an ordinary verb
- misunderstandsame mis- 'wrongly'
原始詞典資料3 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。
misplaceverb/mɪsˈpleɪs/
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To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.
- I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
- At least once a week a patient will come into Dr. Thomas Loepfe’s busy geriatric clinic in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, with a worry. She will tell him she’s been misplacing her glasses lately, or he’ll say he’s concerned about losing the car keys.
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To apply one's talents inappropriately.
- Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.
- 3
To put something in the wrong location.
- Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.
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。