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to misunderstand / to mistake / misunderstanding / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
lapse / mistake / to make a mistake / fault / service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *誤* | 誤* | *誤
mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly
HSK 6
to misunderstand / misunderstanding
HSK 5
mistaken; false; wrong / error; mistake / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to correct printing errors
corrigenda
to disobey and cause delays / to obstruct and procrastinate
double fault (in tennis)
difference / error / inaccuracy
HSK 7-9
to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
to postpone (with unfortunate consequences); to take too long (to do sth); to miss (a deadline or window of opportunity)
HSK 7-9
mistaken ideas; misconceptions; the error of one's ways
HSK 7-9
to mislead / to misguide / misleading
HSK 7-9
(idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good
omission / missing word
to delay / to hold up / to waste time / to interfere with
HSK 7-9
to write a word incorrectly / typo / (medicine) to mistakenly transplant (an infected organ etc)
to neglect neither one
to misspeak; to get one's words mixed up / a slip of the tongue
verified / unmistaken
logical error
to unwittingly write the wrong thing
bias (statistics)
to miss a plane
not on time / late (public transport, airlines) / overdue / behind schedule / delayed
foot fault (tennis etc)
to take a wrong step in life (idiom) / to go astray
to mistakenly kill / manslaughter
corrigenda
miscarriage of justice
to misdiagnose / to be late in giving medical treatment
demurrage (shipping)
to put sth in the wrong place
to injure accidentally / accidental injury
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
to hold things up / to make a botch of things
to misjudge / error of judgment / incorrect ruling / miscarriage of justice
error in a text / text corruption
accidentally / to act before thinking
mistake; error / to mislead; to lead astray
to consider erroneously / incorrectly attributed to sb
used in expressions of the form + {verb} + 不誤|不误, in which means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤|照买不误, to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)
mistake
error; mistake
to delay / to procrastinate
to miss (bus, train etc)
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
to misuse
lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship / to embark on a hopeless adventure
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress / (of media) to propagate errors / to lead people astray
to misread / (fig.) to misunderstand / to misinterpret
error / mistaken idea / falsehood
to be late for or absent from work / to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work / loss of working time; a holdup
to accidentally eat; to inadvertently ingest
to falsely believe / to be mislead / to fall for (a trick etc)
to affect adversely / to delay or hinder / to waste (an opportunity) / to mislead
true or false? / correct or incorrect / to correct errors (in a document)
run-time error (in computing)
segmentation fault
a slip of a pen / CL: 處|处
to miswrite (while copying written material); to transcribe incorrectly; to make a clerical error
to correct printing errors
variant of 耽誤|耽误


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