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单词 misplaced
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Definition of misplaced in English:

misplaced

adjective mɪsˈpleɪstmɪsˈpleɪst
  • 1Incorrectly positioned.

    放错位置的

    a million dollars had been lost because of a misplaced comma

    只因逗号错置,损失了100万美元。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A misplaced comma may be obscuring the meaning of this reference.
    • There were plenty of people around during the installation who could and should have seen the missing and misplaced letters, she said.
    • This road is obviously too narrow as is the pavement to accommodate this hazardous, ill-conceived and misplaced hazard.
    • The game then degenerated into a real mishmash of misplaced passes and precious few chances.
    • Can we roll back the tide of misplaced apostrophes and commas?
    • Bad spellings, misplaced commas and apostrophes may be acceptable in text messages.
    • A misplaced pass by Bloom led to Wilson being played into the box and his low shot nestled into the far corner of the net.
    • A cloying Riverside surface hardly explained the endless procession of misplaced passes, unimaginative runs and poor first touches.
    • City were getting closer and a misplaced pass by Tony Barras set Ward away.
    • At one point, he sprinted fifteen yards to recover his own misplaced pass, doing so and turning in frustration when a foul was given.
    • They had five against two in the last third of the pitch but, after a misplaced pass, the chance was gone.
    • Perhaps it was just to see what kind of opportunity the next misplaced pass might set up for the opposition.
    • The players got tired and there were a few misplaced passes setting the opposition up.
    • INA recently won a grievance to place all nurses misplaced on the salary schedule in their appropriate slot.
    • Incorrect signs and misplaced cones as part of restrictions put in place by Richmond upon Thames Council on rugby days led drivers to believe they couldn't park in Crown Road.
    • Rosser had a run from the back but the move broke down following a misplaced pass.
    • Every misplaced apostrophe will be moved to its proper position.
    • It was really quite strange how greatly a misplaced comma could anger him.
    • Their game was characterised by misplaced passes and a directionless attacking approach.
    • After a few hours had passed the women had finally cleaned out all the misplaced artifacts and had them in a large pile in the middle of the main room.
    1. 1.1 Not appropriate or correct in the circumstances.
      不合时宜的
      a telling sign of misplaced priorities

      错设优先重点的明显迹象。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She went on to ask if this sort of bad behaviour was the result of misplaced priorities, of too much doctrine and too little demand that we treat each other with respect.
      • More important, there is the matter of misplaced priorities.
      • To the extent that this encourages swift justice, it is good - at the same time, there's some obviously misplaced priorities there.
      • It is good to remember that today's small number of really excellent stable funds is a sad commentary on the misplaced priorities of the mutual fund industry.
      • So it now falls upon me to correct the angry and misplaced insinuations in his letter, one by one.
      • It's extremely subjective and it's extremely seductive and more often than not, it's extremely misplaced as graphic design.
      • From your description of misplaced government priorities, I consider the odds that your city is a ‘model of good government’ as roughly zero.
      • I'll say you're wrong, but lots of people have misplaced priorities.
      • Last week I wrote about the Administration's misplaced priorities in providing the nation with nuclear security.
      • We all want to join the political and economic A list but if what we give up on the way is the freedom to determine what sets us apart, then perhaps our priorities have been misplaced.
      • This is misplaced for a whole host of reasons, but here are a few.
      • As a reasonable citizen, what really troubles the professor is that this priority to achieve gender equity in the ranks is an example of grossly misplaced priorities.
      • Then again, misplaced priorities in the corridors of power should seldom shock us, of course.
      • As for the second, there are growing signs that the present approach, with its obsession with speed as the cause of road death and injury, is misplaced and excessive.
      • The concern with efficiency turned out to be misplaced; information density is not a very high priority for most organisms.
      • Perhaps there're some majorly misplaced priorities here.
      • Some feel this has facilitated the type of climate of misplaced priorities.
      • Many midlevel managers' priorities are misplaced, and loyalty to one's agency too often has primacy.
      • Examples of skewed or misplaced fiscal priorities abound.
      • Democrats said the fact that the House was devoting almost a full day to the proposal illustrated the misplaced priorities of the Republican majority.
      Synonyms
      misguided, unwise, misconceived, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged
      inappropriate, unsuitable, untoward, inapt
    2. 1.2 (of a feeling or emotion) directed unwisely or to an inappropriate object.
      (情感)不明智寄托的;错误爱好的
      he began to wonder if his sympathy was misplaced

      他开始怀疑是否同情错了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The tragedy is that his emotions are so misplaced.
      • Now don't get me wrong, not all of her affection was misplaced.
      • The critical venom is almost enough to stir misplaced feelings of cultural loyalty and ties of kinship in even the hardest black heart.
      • Not all anger is misplaced, and often it's a healthy, natural response to these difficulties.
      • While this misplaced loyalty may be admirable, it's a big financial mistake.
      • This culture of misplaced loyalty has become so ingrained in our national psyche that in offices across the country staff are engaged in a battle to see who can stay the latest or arrive the earliest.
      • And the film manages to capture the painful glory of first love, misplaced love and the temptations of sex over true affection, with a brave and uplifting ending.
      • Yet, there are times when I wonder if my love is misplaced, if I should temper my affection.
      • They are still nurturing misplaced nostalgia for the Clinton years and the false hope that if they just keep their mouths shut, the country will yearn for their return.
      • However, the State authorities argue that the apprehensions are misplaced and misguided.
      • One of the points I kept trying to make this week, and again, nobody cares, but, is that we have what I would call misplaced outrage.
      • Many members are fed up with being told they are fools, and the resentment it creates increasingly finds expression in a subcurrent of misplaced nostalgia for old Labour.
      • This precipitates spirals of misery, anger, and misplaced rage, as they blame society as a whole for their shortcomings.
      • One of the things that always makes me suspicious about alleged public fibs is misplaced outrage.
      • I found myself experiencing those same misplaced feelings of utter sophistication.
      • They are to be pitied, for they are so blinded by their misplaced rage and fear that they no longer know what they stand for or how to make a stand at all.
      • He left her standing in long grass at the edge of the road; her disappointment in him, no doubt, mirroring his misplaced hope in her.
      • At least if their hateful, despicable views are aired they can be seen publicly for the idiots they are, but if suppressed they feed on fear and misplaced anger and that's how they grow.
      • For the first few days I had those misplaced emotions of gratitude and pity.
      • Football hooliganism is not about football, or booze, or misplaced passion.
  • 2attributive Temporarily lost.

    暂时丢失的,一时找不到的

    her misplaced keys

    她那些不知放在哪儿的钥匙。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She writes that all this went unacknowledged when her husband screamed at her complaining about missing papers and misplaced pens.
    • ‘Spells to find wedding rings dropped down wells or misplaced keys can be bought for a pittance,’ he said.
    • Since we have several lab areas where we work, it's not unheard of to have to backtrack to recover a temporarily misplaced disk.
    • My problems are typical: misplaced keys, forgetting a task while in the middle of it and, of course, name amnesia.
    • Delayed shipments, misplaced orders and lost products were commonplace.
    • A dog which was run over, a set of misplaced keys and a woman wanting a plumber were just a few of the incidents Bradford's emergency services dealt with this year.
    • Put your keys or other commonly misplaced objects in the same place every time you set them down.
    Synonyms
    lost, mislaid, missing, nowhere to be found

Definition of misplaced in US English:

misplaced

adjectivemisˈplāstmɪsˈpleɪst
  • 1Incorrectly positioned.

    放错位置的

    a million dollars had been lost because of a misplaced comma

    只因逗号错置,损失了100万美元。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a few hours had passed the women had finally cleaned out all the misplaced artifacts and had them in a large pile in the middle of the main room.
    • City were getting closer and a misplaced pass by Tony Barras set Ward away.
    • Bad spellings, misplaced commas and apostrophes may be acceptable in text messages.
    • Rosser had a run from the back but the move broke down following a misplaced pass.
    • Can we roll back the tide of misplaced apostrophes and commas?
    • Their game was characterised by misplaced passes and a directionless attacking approach.
    • INA recently won a grievance to place all nurses misplaced on the salary schedule in their appropriate slot.
    • Incorrect signs and misplaced cones as part of restrictions put in place by Richmond upon Thames Council on rugby days led drivers to believe they couldn't park in Crown Road.
    • A cloying Riverside surface hardly explained the endless procession of misplaced passes, unimaginative runs and poor first touches.
    • A misplaced pass by Bloom led to Wilson being played into the box and his low shot nestled into the far corner of the net.
    • This road is obviously too narrow as is the pavement to accommodate this hazardous, ill-conceived and misplaced hazard.
    • They had five against two in the last third of the pitch but, after a misplaced pass, the chance was gone.
    • Every misplaced apostrophe will be moved to its proper position.
    • The game then degenerated into a real mishmash of misplaced passes and precious few chances.
    • A misplaced comma may be obscuring the meaning of this reference.
    • The players got tired and there were a few misplaced passes setting the opposition up.
    • There were plenty of people around during the installation who could and should have seen the missing and misplaced letters, she said.
    • Perhaps it was just to see what kind of opportunity the next misplaced pass might set up for the opposition.
    • At one point, he sprinted fifteen yards to recover his own misplaced pass, doing so and turning in frustration when a foul was given.
    • It was really quite strange how greatly a misplaced comma could anger him.
    1. 1.1 Not appropriate or correct in the circumstances.
      不合时宜的
      a telling sign of misplaced priorities

      错设优先重点的明显迹象。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • As for the second, there are growing signs that the present approach, with its obsession with speed as the cause of road death and injury, is misplaced and excessive.
      • As a reasonable citizen, what really troubles the professor is that this priority to achieve gender equity in the ranks is an example of grossly misplaced priorities.
      • More important, there is the matter of misplaced priorities.
      • Democrats said the fact that the House was devoting almost a full day to the proposal illustrated the misplaced priorities of the Republican majority.
      • I'll say you're wrong, but lots of people have misplaced priorities.
      • Some feel this has facilitated the type of climate of misplaced priorities.
      • To the extent that this encourages swift justice, it is good - at the same time, there's some obviously misplaced priorities there.
      • From your description of misplaced government priorities, I consider the odds that your city is a ‘model of good government’ as roughly zero.
      • It is good to remember that today's small number of really excellent stable funds is a sad commentary on the misplaced priorities of the mutual fund industry.
      • She went on to ask if this sort of bad behaviour was the result of misplaced priorities, of too much doctrine and too little demand that we treat each other with respect.
      • Examples of skewed or misplaced fiscal priorities abound.
      • Many midlevel managers' priorities are misplaced, and loyalty to one's agency too often has primacy.
      • Then again, misplaced priorities in the corridors of power should seldom shock us, of course.
      • This is misplaced for a whole host of reasons, but here are a few.
      • It's extremely subjective and it's extremely seductive and more often than not, it's extremely misplaced as graphic design.
      • Perhaps there're some majorly misplaced priorities here.
      • So it now falls upon me to correct the angry and misplaced insinuations in his letter, one by one.
      • We all want to join the political and economic A list but if what we give up on the way is the freedom to determine what sets us apart, then perhaps our priorities have been misplaced.
      • Last week I wrote about the Administration's misplaced priorities in providing the nation with nuclear security.
      • The concern with efficiency turned out to be misplaced; information density is not a very high priority for most organisms.
      Synonyms
      misguided, unwise, misconceived, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged
    2. 1.2 (of an emotion) directed unwisely or to an inappropriate object.
      (情感)不明智寄托的;错误爱好的
      he began to wonder if his sympathy were misplaced

      他开始怀疑是否同情错了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • This precipitates spirals of misery, anger, and misplaced rage, as they blame society as a whole for their shortcomings.
      • They are still nurturing misplaced nostalgia for the Clinton years and the false hope that if they just keep their mouths shut, the country will yearn for their return.
      • Not all anger is misplaced, and often it's a healthy, natural response to these difficulties.
      • One of the things that always makes me suspicious about alleged public fibs is misplaced outrage.
      • They are to be pitied, for they are so blinded by their misplaced rage and fear that they no longer know what they stand for or how to make a stand at all.
      • Now don't get me wrong, not all of her affection was misplaced.
      • He left her standing in long grass at the edge of the road; her disappointment in him, no doubt, mirroring his misplaced hope in her.
      • The critical venom is almost enough to stir misplaced feelings of cultural loyalty and ties of kinship in even the hardest black heart.
      • Yet, there are times when I wonder if my love is misplaced, if I should temper my affection.
      • And the film manages to capture the painful glory of first love, misplaced love and the temptations of sex over true affection, with a brave and uplifting ending.
      • One of the points I kept trying to make this week, and again, nobody cares, but, is that we have what I would call misplaced outrage.
      • The tragedy is that his emotions are so misplaced.
      • Many members are fed up with being told they are fools, and the resentment it creates increasingly finds expression in a subcurrent of misplaced nostalgia for old Labour.
      • I found myself experiencing those same misplaced feelings of utter sophistication.
      • At least if their hateful, despicable views are aired they can be seen publicly for the idiots they are, but if suppressed they feed on fear and misplaced anger and that's how they grow.
      • Football hooliganism is not about football, or booze, or misplaced passion.
      • This culture of misplaced loyalty has become so ingrained in our national psyche that in offices across the country staff are engaged in a battle to see who can stay the latest or arrive the earliest.
      • While this misplaced loyalty may be admirable, it's a big financial mistake.
      • However, the State authorities argue that the apprehensions are misplaced and misguided.
      • For the first few days I had those misplaced emotions of gratitude and pity.
  • 2attributive Temporarily lost.

    暂时丢失的,一时找不到的

    her misplaced keys

    她那些不知放在哪儿的钥匙。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since we have several lab areas where we work, it's not unheard of to have to backtrack to recover a temporarily misplaced disk.
    • Put your keys or other commonly misplaced objects in the same place every time you set them down.
    • My problems are typical: misplaced keys, forgetting a task while in the middle of it and, of course, name amnesia.
    • She writes that all this went unacknowledged when her husband screamed at her complaining about missing papers and misplaced pens.
    • ‘Spells to find wedding rings dropped down wells or misplaced keys can be bought for a pittance,’ he said.
    • A dog which was run over, a set of misplaced keys and a woman wanting a plumber were just a few of the incidents Bradford's emergency services dealt with this year.
    • Delayed shipments, misplaced orders and lost products were commonplace.
    Synonyms
    lost, mislaid, missing, nowhere to be found
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