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To mistime something is to do it at not quite the right moment — a bit early, a bit late, or in a gap where it lands badly. A tennis player mistimes a shot and hits the ball off-centre. A joke mistimed after bad news falls flat. You can mistime an arrival, a , a product launch. It is not the same as being slow in general; the clock or the moment was wrong for that one act.
沒抓準時機;時機不對
組成mis- (wrongly) + time (the moment something happens).
同家族的字
- timethe moment you choose — the base of the verb
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。
mistimeverb/mɪsˈtaɪm/
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To perform an action at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events.
- I mistimed my leap and fell flat on my face.
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。