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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Monsieur Jacques Paganel," said Lord Glenarvan, after a brief pause, "that would certainly be a grand achievement, and you would confer a great boon on science, but I should not like to allow you to be laboring under a mistake any longer, and I must tell you, therefore, that for the present at least, you must give up the pleasure of a visit to India."
-- To mistake a railway or to take the train to Edinburgh when you want to go to Dumbarton might happen; but to mistake a ship and be sailing for Chili when you meant to go to India—that is a blunder indeed!
-- "Oh, my Lord," exclaimed Paganel, "I am but too happy to have made a mistake which has turned out so agreeably.
-- It was impossible to mistake the meaning of the action, for the noble face of the Scotch lord so beamed with gratitude that no words were needed.
-- The Patagonian could not mistake him now—water was not far off.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If there is any mistake it is for Mr. Barrymore himself to complain.'
-- I wanted to say to you how sorry I am about the stupid mistake I made in think-ing that you were Sir Henry.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure people make a great mistake in sorting each other into groups, by appearances; but I am boring you, I see, you ' 'Just two words: have you any means at all?
-- 'Tell me, why didn't you put me right when I made such a dreadful mistake just now?'
-- Then he added suddenly 'But after all ... after all I believe we made a mistake this time!I remember that the Sokolovitch's live in another house, and what is more, they are just now in Moscow.
-- That is where your mistake lies an extremely natural mistake, I assure you, my dear fellow!'
-- 'I only now perceive what a terrible mistake I made in reading this article to them,' said Hippolyte, suddenly, ad-dressing Evgenie, and looking at him with an expression of trust and confidence, as though he were applying to a friend for counsel.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And let him send you into battle clad in his own armour, that the Trojans may mistake you for him and leave off fighting; the sons of the Achaeans may thus have time to get their breath, for they are hard pressed and there is little breathing time in battle.
-- Let me moreover wear your armour; the Tro-jans may thus mistake me for you and quit the field, so that the hard-pressed sons of the Achaeans may have breath-ing time which while they are fighting may hardly be.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no mistake this time in the quality of the dim, broken sounds; no doubt at all of their source.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.'
-- 'And how am I to be sure that Nag won't mistake me for you some dark night?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Being little accustomed to the practices of the savages, Alice, you mistake the place of real danger,' said Heyward.
-- 'No, no; this was bad, and shocking, and had a sort of un-human sound; but when you once hear the war-whoop, you will never mistake it for anything else.
-- Hawkeye made no other reply than by passing his finger around the crown of his head, in a manner so significant, that none who witnessed the action could mistake its mean-ing.
-- It was nearly a miracle that you did not mistake the path, for the Hurons divided, and each band had its horses.'
-- The instant their mistake was rectified, the whole party retraced the error with the utmost diligence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Discovering his mistake after a while, he appeared to grow rather sleepy and discontented, and had more than once suggested the propriety of an immediate departure, when the door opened, and the child herself appeared.
-- 'If any mistake should arise from not having the name, don't say it was my fault, Sir,' added Dick, still lingering. 'Oh blame not the bard ''I'll blame nobody,' said the lodger, with such irascibility that in a moment Dick found himself on the staircase, and the locked door between them.
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