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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, please come home, do come home,' said Mrs Quilp, sobbing; 'we'll never do so any more, Quilp, and after all it was only a mistake that grew out of our anxiety.'
-- 'Are you sure you didn't mistake a figure, Davy?'
-- 'It is so, and there can't be any mistake at all,' rejoined Miss Brass emphatically.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There was a mistake in the jury's finding against Maslova.
-- "But could not the mistake be rectified?"
-- That is to say, it was the duty of the presiding justice to explain to the jury their mistake and refer the question of the guilt of the accused to them for further deliberation.'"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a mistake to do things too easily.
-- As I stood sick and confused I saw again the moving thing upon the shoal there was no mistake now that it was a moving thing against the red water of the sea.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice was just beginning to say 'There's a mistake somewhere ,' when the Queen began screaming so loud that she had to leave the sentence unfinished.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One could not mistake its volcanic origin.
-- Not a mistake has been made in the working.
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：
-- Really, what a mistake he had made, thinking he wanted people, thinking he wanted a woman.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had it been dark, I daresay he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but, we witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious charge pressed to my heart.
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