mistake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 错误， 过失， 误解v. 弄错； (for) 把…误认为，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because, if it was so long ago, how could the people abouthim have made that mistake of putting some of the trouble out ofhis head, after it was taken off, into mine?'
-- 259'Trot, I tell you what, my dear,' said my aunt, one morning in theChristmas season when I left school; 'as this knotty point is stillunsettled, and as we must not make a mistake in our decision if wecan help it, I think we had better take a little breathing-time.
-- The mistake is mine, no doubt, sir.'
-- 'Micawber,' she returned,'no!Your mistake in life is, that you do not look forward farenough.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I know there is such an idea with many people, but indeed it is quite a mistake, sir. We all had our health per-fectly well there, never found the least inconvenience from the mud; and Mr. Wingfield says it is entirely a mistake to suppose the place unhealthy; and I am sure he may be de-pended on, for he thoroughly understands the nature of the air, and his own brother and family have been there repeat-edly.'
-- I am exceedingly sorry: but it is well that the mistake ends where it does.
-- 'What felicity it is to hear a tune again which has made one happy! If I mistake not that was danced at Wey-mouth.'
-- You could not give me a great-er reproof for the mistake I fell into.
-- Weston, do not mistake me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran after you to say that my aunt made a mistake in sending you away from courting me "Gabriel expanded.
-- "But don't mistake me like that!Because I am open enough to own what every man in my shoes would have thought of, you make your colours come up your face, and get crabbed with me.
-- "Oh you see, mem, his pore mother, not being a Scripture-read woman, made a mistake at his christening, thinking 'twas Abel killed Cain, and called en Cain, meaning Abel all the time.
-- "But after all," she expostulated in a trembling voice, "the mistake was not such a terrible thing!Now, dear Frank, when shall it be?"
-- Her tone and mien signified beyond mistake that the seed which was to lift the foundation had taken root in the chink: the remainder was a mere question of time and natural changes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfillment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the fail-ure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!If ever anybody's hair stood on end with terror, mine must have done so then.
-- "But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on?"
-- "There you quite mistake him," said I.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her betrothed only replied, 'You must come and see me next Sunday; I have already in- vited guests for that day, and that you may not mistake the way, I will strew ashes along the path.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
-- He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calcu-lation.
-- He lamented 'the fatal mistake the world had been so long in, of using silkworms, while we had such plenty of domestic insects who infinitely excelled the former, because they understood how to weave, as well as spin.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago.
-- 'That was a great mistake of yours,' observed Louisa.
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