| 单词 | wrong |
| 释义 | wrong I. 1. < set forth once again … so many were the wrongs that were to be righted, the grievances to be redressed — Malcolm Muggeridge > < two wrongs don't make a right > 2. < not to know right from wrong > < the wrong is not all on one side > 3. < have done so with a sense of wrong toward her — Gretchen Finletter > < see wrongs on all sides > < roused by a sense of wrong to herself or others — Gilbert Parker > 4. < was all-powerful and never in the wrong — F.M.Ford > as a. < the election showed clearly how far in the wrong his predictions had been > b. < thorough investigation proved him irreparably in the wrong > 5. archaic < newts and blindworms do no wrong, come not near our Fairy Queen — Shakespeare > 6. II. 1. < parsons … thought it would be wrong for them … to undertake combatant service — Rose Macaulay > 2. < wrong principles of conduct > < some habits are not wrong but are unsocial > < those who hold that a lie is always wrong — Bertrand Russell > 3. < packing off those who talked to the wrong people — R.S.Brown > < unfortunately was seen in all the wrong places > 4. < the person in the wrong job who fails — W.J.Reilly > < it seemed that he had said the wrong thing — Max Peacock > 5. < gives his book a wrong date — DeLancey Ferguson > < the figures are correct but the sum is wrong > 6. < there is something wrong about the way the story ends > < what's wrong with tea — Herbert Passin > < don't see anything wrong with it > 7. < went up the wrong valley and lost several precious days — Heinrich Harrer > < took the wrong size container and ran out of water > 8. < the wrong side of the fabric > < pulled her pocket wrong side out — Margaret Deland > < using the wrong end of the brush — David Sylvester > 9. < the intellectual exercise of arguing on the wrong side of a question > 10. a. < the wrong side of the railroad tracks — J.A.Morris b. 1904 > < the tide was wrong for a landing — Carl Markwith > b. < a broken-down old soldier on the wrong side of seventy — D.G.Gerahty > < got started on the wrong foot — Lee Greene > < driving on the wrong side of the white line — Phoenix Flame > < born on the wrong side of the blanket > < swallowed something the wrong way and almost choked > 11. a. < the book … is often amusing, always arch and clever, and usually wrong — John Farrelly > b. < he is wrong in the head > 12. a. b. < ten bucks he's wrong > III. 1. < guessed wrong > < did his homework all wrong > 2. < embarrassment made him act wrong > 3. < should be made to put right what he has done wrong > 4. a. < the package sent wrong by the post office > < got lost because he turned wrong at the junction > b. < a slum environment may cause a child to go wrong > 5. < what has gone wrong and what has led to the government's failure — J.G.Palfrey > 6. < the lock of one of them goes wrong — Charles Dickens > < his kidneys may go wrong — H.A.Overstreet > 7. < don't get me wrong — T.V.Smith > IV. 1. a. < where we have wronged the public trust, let there be no excuses — A.E.Stevenson b.1900 > b. < the girl he had loved and married and wronged — Zane Grey > 2. < it would wrong the Indians out of their land — William Bartram > 3. archaic < an indifferent good play but wronged by the women … in their parts — Samuel Pepys > 4. < you wrong him; his interests are wider than that — Israel Zangwill > 5. 6. Synonyms: < he had wronged her; he had betrayed her; he had trampled her pride in the dust — Ellen Glasgow > oppress suggests causing someone to suffer by inhumanely laying a too heavy burden upon him < no matter how high it raises prices, how much it controls supply or to what extent it oppresses the general consumer — C.A.Cooke > < oppress with excessive taxation > persecute suggests relentlessly or unremittingly subjecting someone to annoyance or suffering < persecute a child by constant criticism > < when true science was persecuted under the Roman tyrants, superstition and false philosophy flourished the more — Encyc. Americana > aggrieve suggests giving someone by an injustice (as a wrong or oppression) reason for protest < the too familiar story of a sensitive child aggrieved by devilish adults — Elizabeth Janeway > < provisions should be made for recourse to the courts by parties who may be aggrieved by such orders — S.T.Powell > |
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