mistaken是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 搞错了的， 误解的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see him striding along the pro-file of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day she said to me:"You know, I'm convinced you were mistaken about Charles being alone.
-- "I wonder if you haven't mistaken your medium," I said.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And his turn for natural history was, more than once in the course of time, of great use, and he was not mistaken in this instance.
-- Cyrus Harding reflected a few minutes; he attentively observed the perimeter of the island, taking into consideration the height at which he was placed; then, "My friends," said he, "I do not think I am mistaken in giving to the shore of the island a circumference of more than a hundred miles."
-- If Cyrus Harding was not mistaken in his calculation, the island had almost the extent of Malta or Zante, in the Mediterranean, but it was at the same time much more irregular and less rich in capes, promontories, points, bays, or creeks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was very much mistaken if some of the people who came there oftenest were quite as honest as they might be, but she wouldn't have it known that she had said so, for the world.
-- In face she bore a striking resemblance to her brother, Sampson so exact, indeed, was the likeness between them, that had it consorted with Miss Brass's maiden modesty and gentle womanhood to have assumed her brother's clothes in a frolic and sat down beside him, it would have been difficult for the oldest friend of the family to determine which was Sampson and which Sally, especially as the lady carried upon her upper lip certain reddish demonstrations, which, if the imagination had been assisted by her attire, might have been mistaken for a beard.
-- 'Why then, Mr Richard,' said Brass, darting at him a supercilious and reproachful look, 'it's my opinion that you've mistaken your calling, and will never make a lawyer.'
-- There was a simplicity in this confidence which occasioned it to find a quick response in the breast of the good-natured Notary, who replied, in the same spirit, that the stranger had not mistaken his desire, and that if he could be of service to him, he would, most readily.
-- If you deny them from any mistaken regard or fear for them, judge of my intentions by their recognition of this person as their old humble friend.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Madrepores (which must not be mistaken for corals) have a tissue lined with a calcareous crust, and the modifications of its structure have induced M. Milne Edwards, my worthy master, to class them into five sections.
-- I recognized the Javanese, a real serpent two and a half feet long, of a livid colour underneath, and which might easily be mistaken for a conger eel if it were not for the golden stripes on its side.
-- He was never mistaken when he saw the thin threads of bluish water trickling along the ice-fields; and I had no doubt that he had already ventured into the midst of these Antarctic seas before.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been mistaken again.
-- It seems to me he's mistaken there too," said Gudrun.
-- "I jealous!I jealous!You are mistaken if you think that.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In an instant one was wrung free, and the astonished young man felt it applied over his own ear in a way that could not be mistaken for jest.
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