英语词汇“the wrong end”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. the wrong end, the end, extremity, or limit less adapted, suitable, or proper for a required or particular purpose. Occasionally figurative. Also quasi-adv. (quot. 1897).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > less suitable end

latter enda1382

the wrong end1587

1587 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. vi. (1895) 166 Calasiris carried Cariclias quiver.., the wrong ende downeward on his shoulders.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. iii. 1323 My master..then turning..the wrong end of the booke vpward.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. xi. 259 They..begin at the wrong end, learning Words first.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxv. 147 Till a Vain Repentance Minds us of it at the Wrong End on't.

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 40 I don't think our saying, such a Horse goes the wrong End before, altogether improper, when we speak it of a Horse that goes wide before, and near behind.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. iii. 454 This was setting up the trade of a steward, but beginning at the wrong end.

1836 Hooton Bilberry Thurland III. 252 He looked prodigiously cruel, having, as our country folks term it, got out of bed the wrong end first.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) Pref. 6 Most of the elementary works I have seen begin at the wrong end.

1886 T. L. Kington-Oliphant New Eng. I. 491 We talk of the wrong end of the stick.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 249 If you happen to have the arrangement of a bargain..with the rural Australian, you will rarely find that the apparently impassive countryman has ‘got the wrong end of the stick’.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 125 Patent rockets that went off wrong-end-first.

1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxxii. 228 Daly knew men. He was at the wrong end of the whip.

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. vii. 283 Listen, Hilda. You've got hold of the wrong end of the stick about this business.

单词	the wrong end
释义	> as lemmas the wrong end c. the wrong end, the end, extremity, or limit less adapted, suitable, or proper for a required or particular purpose. Occasionally figurative. Also quasi-adv. (quot. 1897). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > less suitable end latter enda1382 the wrong end1587 1587 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. vi. (1895) 166 Calasiris carried Cariclias quiver.., the wrong ende downeward on his shoulders. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. iii. 1323 My master..then turning..the wrong end of the booke vpward. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. xi. 259 They..begin at the wrong end, learning Words first. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxv. 147 Till a Vain Repentance Minds us of it at the Wrong End on't. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 40 I don't think our saying, such a Horse goes the wrong End before, altogether improper, when we speak it of a Horse that goes wide before, and near behind. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. iii. 454 This was setting up the trade of a steward, but beginning at the wrong end. 1836 Hooton Bilberry Thurland III. 252 He looked prodigiously cruel, having, as our country folks term it, got out of bed the wrong end first. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) Pref. 6 Most of the elementary works I have seen begin at the wrong end. 1886 T. L. Kington-Oliphant New Eng. I. 491 We talk of the wrong end of the stick. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 249 If you happen to have the arrangement of a bargain..with the rural Australian, you will rarely find that the apparently impassive countryman has ‘got the wrong end of the stick’. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 125 Patent rockets that went off wrong-end-first. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxxii. 228 Daly knew men. He was at the wrong end of the whip. 1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. vii. 283 Listen, Hilda. You've got hold of the wrong end of the stick about this business. extracted from wrongadj.adv. < as lemmas
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