error


n. 误差;错误;过失

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中文词源

error 错误

来自err, 犯错误。

英文词源

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."

实用例句

1. The plane was shot down in error by a NATO missile.
一枚北约的导弹误将那架飞机击落。
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2. The hospital blamed the mix-up on a clerical error.
医院方面将这一混乱归咎于一处笔误。
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3. You have to allow for a certain amount of error.
你必须将一定量的误差考虑在内。
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4. Every error is captured, every decision picked to pieces.
每个错误都会被抓住,每个决定都会被骂得一无是处。
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5. The government has said it was an inadvertent error.
政府声称那是因疏忽造成的过失。
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