核心畫面

Eyes on a page, taking something off it — and what they take is not what is written. The reading feels normal while it happens. The gap only shows up later, in what you do with it.

misread 可以想成眼睛在一頁字上移動,把東西讀進來,但讀進來的跟上面寫的不一樣。讀的當下完全沒有感覺,一切都很更多收起misread 可以想成眼睛在一頁字上移動,把東西讀進來,但讀進來的跟上面寫的不一樣。讀的當下完全沒有感覺,一切都很正常。落差要到後來才浮出來,出現在你照著那個理解去做的事情上。

From the word’s history

From Old English misraedan, mis- plus read, where mis- marks the action as done wrongly.

Wiktionary 記錄 misread 來自中古英語 misreden,再往上是古英語 misrǣdan,等於 mis- 加 read。mis- 就是「這個動作做錯了」。所以整個字從頭到尾都在講同一件事:讀,可是讀岔了。

Wiktionary, packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:187779187:8665 — etymology_text: From Middle English misreden, from Old English misraedan (to advise wrongly; read wrongly), equivalent to mis- + read.

Two branches

字讀錯了

核心畫面本身:真的有一頁字,眼睛拿錯了東西。

verb · B2

To read a word, a number, or a sign wrongly, so that you take in something different from what is really written there.

讀錯;看錯(字或數字)

把人和情況讀錯了

把那一頁字換成人的表情、現場的氣氛、市場的走向:沒有人寫下來,但你一樣在讀,一樣可能讀錯。

verb · B2

To understand a person, a situation, or a signal in the wrong way, so that you end up believing something about it that is not true.

誤判;看錯(人或情況)