error

英 ['er?] 美['?r?]

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復(fù)數(shù):?errors;

error 錯(cuò)誤

來(lái)自err, 犯錯(cuò)誤。

error: error: see err
error (n.): also, through 18c., errour; c. 1300, "a deviation from truth made through ignorance or inadvertence, a mistake," also "offense against morality or justice; transgression, wrong-doing, sin;" from Old French error "mistake, flaw, defect, heresy," from Latin errorem (nominative error) "a wandering, straying, a going astray; meandering; doubt, uncertainty;" also "a figurative going astray, mistake," from errare "to wander" (see err). From early 14c. as "state of believing or practicing what is false or heretical; false opinion or belief, heresy." From late 14c. as "deviation from what is normal; abnormality, aberration." From 1726 as "difference between observed value and true value."

Words for "error" in most Indo-European languages originally meant "wander, go astray" (for example Greek plane in the New Testament, Old Norse villa, Lithuanian klaida, Sanskrit bhrama-), but Irish has dearmad "error," from dermat "a forgetting."

1. The plane was shot down in error by a NATO missile.: 一枚北約的導(dǎo)彈誤將那架飛機(jī)擊落。

2. The hospital blamed the mix-up on a clerical error.: 醫(yī)院方面將這一混亂歸咎于一處筆誤。

4. Every error is captured, every decision picked to pieces.: 每個(gè)錯(cuò)誤都會(huì)被抓住，每個(gè)決定都會(huì)被罵得一無(wú)是處。

5. The government has said it was an inadvertent error.: 政府聲稱那是因疏忽造成的過(guò)失。