| 释义 |
misproˈnounce, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To pronounce incorrectly.
1593Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex i. 21 Sometime we finde names in England giuen of the French, and mispronounced as..Beaulye for Beaulieu. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 268 They mispronounc't and I mislik't. 1775Sheridan Rivals i. ii, Mrs. Malaprop..shall treat me..with her select words so ingeniously misapplied, without being mispronounced. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. xiv. 119 To correct Mr. Wegg when he grossly mispronounced a word. 1905Athenæum 8 Apr. 430/3 Daily do we suffer from the conversation of persons..who misapply terms, mispronounce words. |