Misplaced

(adj.) put in the wrong place or position; 'She was penalized for a spelling mistake or a misplaced accent' .

艾琳编辑

• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Missis needn't smoke, said James with a frantic misplaced laugh, and thought the whole matter an excellent joke. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If you have really meant to give me a proof of your good opinion, though ill-timed and misplaced, I feel that I ought to thank you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Yet it never appeared misplaced or forced, being always heartily simple, spontaneous, and genuine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Would that these grateful tears with which I now mourn hope misplaced, and love despised, might flow in peace for ever! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is something to know that my first confidence in you was not all misplaced. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• His reliance on the weather report was not misplaced, since the storm came with full force at noon. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Without conditions, and under present circumstances, the girl is quite misplaced here and had better go. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• For the misplaced expression? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Nothing could be in worse taste than misplaced flippancy; and he answered somewhat stiffly: Yes, you have been away a very long time. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I appeal to you to discontinue your habit of making your misplaced attentions as plain to Mrs Boffin as to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am aware of all these misplaced sympathies of yours. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Therefore, perhaps the expression itself—I merely suggest this to you, my dear—may be a little misplaced. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Reproach in return for bounty is misplaced. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

编辑:斯坦利