| 单词 | there is no mistaking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere is no mistaking a. transitive. To be under a misconception as to the identity or nature of; to take to be somebody or something else. Now only in there is no mistaking: it is impossible not to recognize. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > report or state wrongly [verb (transitive)] > mistake identity of misknowc1330 miskenc1550 mistake1569 nickname1598 misidentify1895 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 108 The Oxe and Asse, which acknowledge their maister, but Israel hath mystaken and not knowen hir Lorde. 1587 J. White in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) iii. 767 They said, they knew our men mistooke them, and hurt them in steede of Winginos men, wherefore they held vs excused. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk2 In hand she boldly tooke To make..Another Florimell, in shape and looke So liuely and so like, that many it mistooke. 1645 J. Milton Arcades in Poems 52 What sudden blaze of majesty Is that which we from hence descry Too divine to be mistook. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 200 If white and black, blend..is there no Black or White?.. Tis to mistake them, costs the Time and Pain. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 17 There was no mistaking the fact. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. xv. 320 Another [astrologer] described him so accurately that there was no mistaking the man. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xi. 188 It was he who did not belong any more. There was no mistaking it. 1977 P. Kavanagh By Night Unstarred xiii. 92 There were carts rolling along the road in the distance but not his cart; he couldn't mistake the roll of his own cart's axle. 1986 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Nov. 42/3 There's no mistaking his love for the old city of Liverpool. < as lemmas |
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