英语词汇“to miss one's mark”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. transitive. figurative. Chiefly in to miss one's (also the) mark (also aim, etc.): to fail to achieve a goal, fall short, disappoint, go wrong.to miss the cushion: see cushion n. 10a.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > fail to reach goal or objective

to miss of the markc1400

to miss one's (also the) mark (also aim, etc.)1604

to come short home1720

to miss one's tip1847

to tear it1909

trail1957

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 268 Iþet itorene folc he miseð [read misseð] his marken. & sið inham richt godes banere.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 638/1 If I mysse nat my marke, he is a busy felowe.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. i. 39 + 4 Whose whisper..may misse our Name, And hit the woundlesse ayre.

1606 Returne from Pernassus iv. iii. sig. G4^v For that I misse'is gaudy painted state, Whereat my fortunes fairely aim'd of late.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. v. 4 I..oft haue shot at them, How e're vnfortunate, I miss'd my ayme.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 176 The Ministers or Brethren now missing their mark, abated much of their former activity.

1729 C. Johnson Village Opera iii. ii. 68 La. Wise. No, Sir Nicholas, you are right, you must be right, you always were right. Luc. It is Fifty to one, Sir, you never miss the Mark.

1781 W. Cowper Epist. to Lady in France in Poems (1980) I. 444 But Ills of ev'ry shape and ev'ry name, Transformed to blessings miss their cruel aim.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §1 Cromwell..in his later years felt bitterly that Puritanism had missed its aim.

1889 J. Stalker Imago Christi (1891) ix. §5. 178 Many a preacher misses the mark because, though he knows books, he does not know men.

1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 49 You see..how completely any semi-ethical criterion of ‘sublimity’ misses the mark.

1992 Economist 24 Oct. 6/1 Your article on Brownian motion..badly misses the mark. I never stated or implied that Robert Brown was a sloppy scientist.

单词	to miss one's mark
释义	> as lemmas to miss one's (also the) mark (also aim, etc.) b. transitive. figurative. Chiefly in to miss one's (also the) mark (also aim, etc.): to fail to achieve a goal, fall short, disappoint, go wrong.to miss the cushion: see cushion n. 10a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > fail to reach goal or objective to miss of the markc1400 to miss one's (also the) mark (also aim, etc.)1604 to come short home1720 to miss one's tip1847 to tear it1909 trail1957 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 268 Iþet itorene folc he miseð [read misseð] his marken. & sið inham richt godes banere. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 638/1 If I mysse nat my marke, he is a busy felowe. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. i. 39 + 4 Whose whisper..may misse our Name, And hit the woundlesse ayre. 1606 Returne from Pernassus iv. iii. sig. G4^v For that I misse'is gaudy painted state, Whereat my fortunes fairely aim'd of late. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. v. 4 I..oft haue shot at them, How e're vnfortunate, I miss'd my ayme. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 176 The Ministers or Brethren now missing their mark, abated much of their former activity. 1729 C. Johnson Village Opera iii. ii. 68 La. Wise. No, Sir Nicholas, you are right, you must be right, you always were right. Luc. It is Fifty to one, Sir, you never miss the Mark. 1781 W. Cowper Epist. to Lady in France in Poems (1980) I. 444 But Ills of ev'ry shape and ev'ry name, Transformed to blessings miss their cruel aim. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §1 Cromwell..in his later years felt bitterly that Puritanism had missed its aim. 1889 J. Stalker Imago Christi (1891) ix. §5. 178 Many a preacher misses the mark because, though he knows books, he does not know men. 1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 49 You see..how completely any semi-ethical criterion of ‘sublimity’ misses the mark. 1992 Economist 24 Oct. 6/1 Your article on Brownian motion..badly misses the mark. I never stated or implied that Robert Brown was a sloppy scientist. extracted from missv.¹ < as lemmas
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