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To mistreat a person or an animal is to treat them badly, especially in a cruel way: hitting, starving, locking up, speaking with constant contempt. Law and news use it about children, workers, prisoners, and pets. It is stronger than “not being nice”; it points to harm. A close cousin in formal reports is . The noun is .
虐待
組成mis- (badly, wrongly) + treat (to behave toward someone in a certain way).
同家族的字
- treatthe base: to behave toward someone in a certain way
- mistreatmentthe noun: cruel or harmful treatment
- maltreatthe same idea with a different prefix, common in formal writing
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。
mistreatverb/mɪsˈtɹiːt/
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To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
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medicinesciencesTo administer an incorrect treatment to a patient.
- The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are 'mistreated with penicillin.
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。