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Definition of wrong in English:

wrong

adjective rɒŋrɔŋ

  • 1Not correct or true; incorrect.

    不正确的；错误的；不合乎事实的

    that is the wrong answer

    那是错误答案。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The argument never ends because there isn't a right or wrong answer.
    • Everything was dealing with people, and no right and wrong answers, and no scripts.
    • Max has a more hysteric method of asking, then screaming when I give the wrong answer.
    • He reacted to Newton's paper by claiming that what was original in the paper was wrong and what was correct in the paper was stolen from him.
    • My recollection is that the procedural history was this - I will stand corrected if I am wrong.
    • There is only one right answer and everything else is a wrong answer, only black and white.
    • Sometimes one of us got the wrong answer, sometimes the other.
    • After a moment he realized that and tried to fix it, but he still managed to get the wrong answer.
    • He had to state that it was only half right, and the half he said was correct, was wrong.
    • I told her that no, every time I check things over, I change right answers into wrong ones.
    • A correct answer wins six points, but a wrong answer loses the team five points.
    • The experimenter records whether that answer was correct or wrong.
    • It was the last quarter, and I was going through my trig homework, quickly writing down answers that were probably wrong.
    • Some of you made some correct assumptions and some wrong ones.
    • If the answer is wrong, the computer says the same and gives the correct answer.
    • In certain cases the customer, rather than the bank, is interested in having the wrong entry corrected.
    • There is, after all, a right and a wrong answer which means that the kind of fine judgements that only come with maturity are not required.
    • The reader wants to know what factual material was wrong and what the true fact is.
    • Both babies were tagged properly and put into the correct cots but the wrong baby was picked up.
    • Instead of correcting the wrong bits I should have just thrown the whole analogy back at him.
    Synonyms
    incorrect, mistaken, in error, erroneous, inaccurate, not accurate, inexact, not exact, imprecise, invalid, untrue, false, fallacious, wide of the mark, off target
    misleading, illogical, unsound, unfounded, without foundation, faulty, flawed
    informal off beam, bogus, phoney, out, way out, full of holes, dicey, iffy
    British informal dodgy
    archaic abroad
    1. 1.1predicative Having judged incorrectly; mistaken.
      I was wrong about him being on the yacht that evening

      他那晚没在游艇上，我弄错了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Alex is wrong about this being a personal moral matter that does not affect public interest.
      • But it would be wrong to argue that all pirate radio in Ireland belonged to a tradition of rebellion.
      • I think she's right about the condition, wrong about the timing and causes.
      • And of course, in our rush to judgment, we were wrong about the man from Cracow.
      • Now I know it is wrong to give water to a person who has fainted or to cut open the wound to bleed out the poison from the body of a snakebite victim.
      • I now have to admit that I was wrong about this all being unfounded rumour.
      • It would also be wrong to assume that the entire financial - services sector speaks with a single voice on the best way forward.
      • But he added it would be wrong to assume at this stage that mobile phones were hazardous to human health.
      • Mr Justice Sullivan ruled yesterday that Tendring Council was wrong to give the go-ahead for the housing estate.
      • Daunting as it nonetheless was, I was quite wrong to be so awed.
      • The Attorney General submits that the Judge was wrong in respect of both rulings.
      • On this appeal the Claimant contends that the Judge was wrong and should not in any event have decided the point summarily.
      • While it would be wrong to say the two firms are desperate, it would also be wrong to say they are ambivalent about the outcome of their bid attempts.
      • It would be wrong to perceive such a statement as defeatist.
      • So, looking back, I was wrong to have made many of the initial judgments I had on my first few days in Shanghai.
      • Another way of putting it is to say the court will not interfere unless the judge is plainly wrong.
      • Even his father came around, admitting he was wrong about business and becoming hugely proud of his successful son.
      • It is hard to see how the judge could be wrong in his interpretation.
      • Can all of those people in the audience be wrong and those few judges be right?
      • Since they were wrong about that, what else could they have been wrong about?
      Synonyms
      incorrect, mistaken, in error, erroneous, inaccurate, not accurate, inexact, not exact, imprecise, invalid, untrue, false, fallacious, wide of the mark, off target
    2. 1.2 Unsuitable or undesirable.
      不适当的，不合适的；不合意的
      the doctor may regard the patient's decision as wrong
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But you are sure to rub lots of people the wrong way by asking such questions.
      • Midori tells me to not take it the wrong way but it's a question of my youth.
      • Annoying as this can be when the questions come at the wrong time, it's great to have a child with an enquiring mind.
      • In the circumstances this was clearly the wrong question because it produced an angry, questioning tirade.
      • But it is wrong to become a slave to food or to let it control you.
      • As a coaching staff, we expect certain standards and I don't think it's wrong to demand those standards of the players.
      • And if what we think is true is based on wrong ideas or impressions, the results can be devastating.
      • Paul Eves can do no wrong in his portrayal of a security guard that always poses the wrong question at the wrong time.
      • Shifting his imposing frame, his expression takes on a thunderous aspect, suggesting this is the wrong question to ask.
      • I spent the rest of the morning asking all the right questions in all the wrong places.
      • This is exactly the kind of report you get when you ask the wrong question.
      • This is a natural question to ask, when your portfolio is in a mess, but unfortunately it's the wrong question.
      • Miss Goddard said Saleem had fallen in with the wrong crowd and did not ask any questions when he allowed them to use the vehicles.
      • In my judgment the court did not apply the wrong definition of smoke, and so the second question posed should be answered in the negative.
      • A shadow seemed to pass over her face, and now it seemed that I had asked the wrong question.
      • It is simply a question of a country, perhaps unconsciously, following the wrong policies.
      • Reading through them I decided that the bars in question were wrong for the lines of words.
      • Perhaps we have, like Alice, simply been asking the wrong question.
      • This man is taking stick over these allegations but what worries me most is when some bloggers seem to think that if true, nothing is wrong.
      • I see the need for political process to correct things that are wrong in society.
      Synonyms
      inappropriate, unsuitable, inapt, inapposite, undesirable
      ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impolitic, injudicious, infelicitous, unacceptable, beyond the pale, unwarranted, unfitting, out of keeping, improper, unseemly, unbecoming, indecorous, lacking in propriety
      informal out of order
    3. 1.3predicative In a bad or abnormal condition; amiss.
      坏的；不正常的；有毛病的
      something was wrong with the pump

      那个泵出了问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I don't know what's wrong with it and Anthony has yet to come look at it.
      • Plainly, something is wrong with him, so it's no surprise that he's wearing a hospital bracelet.
      • What's wrong with people that they can't look each other in the eye with respect and without motivation?
      • Litter on our streets, anti-social behaviour, dereliction - we all know what is wrong with our town.
      • They have had him on an intravenous drip, and they need to try to diagnose exactly what is wrong with him.
      • Doctors were unable to find out exactly what was wrong with Chloe and her condition remains undiagnosed.
      • The buzzers would go off in the night and when the nurses came to see what was wrong they would find the patients fast asleep.
      • He knew that something was wrong and never stopped to think about the dangers involved and that demonstrates what a brave man he was.
      • I spoke to a man tonight about what was wrong with the world.
      • Some readers, undoubtedly, will ask what could be wrong with that scenario.
      • What could be wrong with this non-carcinogenic, non-resource-wasting joy?
      • She's seen innumerable specialists, all of whom have been baffled as to what could be wrong with her and then passing her on to someone else.
      • You know, technology caught up with precisely what was wrong with the way that I used food.
      • Before a ball has been kicked, our festival of the beautiful game has already been depicted as an ugly carnival of all that is wrong with the world.
      • It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it!
      • It's like your heart pains and you wonder what's wrong with human beings.
      • After marrying in 1999, we had tried in vain for three years to conceive even though there was nothing really wrong with us.
      • This Christmas, which Matt spent on the Ivory Coast, a local boy got sick and nobody knew what was wrong with him.
      • Can anyone tell me what is wrong with that paragraph and why it is self-refuting?
      • Dairy products were blamed for virtually everything medically wrong with the younger generation.
      Synonyms
      amiss, awry, out of order, not right, faulty, defective, unsatisfactory, incorrect, inappropriate

  • 2Unjust, dishonest, or immoral.

    不公正的；不诚实的；不道德的

    that was wrong of me
    with infinitive they were wrong to take the law into their own hands

    他们把法律控制在自己手里是不对的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He said it was wrong to expect the Council to always clean up such areas but it was also wrong to expect the residents to put up with the problem.
    • Kelly was completely responsible for his own plight, and was wrong to be a whistleblower.
    • It is quite wrong to try to drive farmers down this avenue.
    • It is wrong to make it illegal to lower the cost of tax and lower the cost to seniors.
    • However, it is important that children are given the message that it is wrong to bully, and that if they are being bullied they must tell an adult.
    • Mr. Kelly added that it would be wrong to condemn the lack of a parade and then do nothing about it.
    • They feel that it's wrong to privilege scientific over other types of knowledge.
    • They also use the argument that if we didn't oppose something else, we are wrong to oppose this.
    • The stepmother in the Snow White tale was evil, and she was wrong to try to deceive and kill Snow White.
    • It is wrong to ask clubs to play games without their county players.
    • If it's wrong to extol virtue, it should be wrong to condemn a vice like hypocrisy.
    • It is wrong to illegally download, but the answer cannot be jail.
    • The uncompromisable principle is that it is always wrong to do evil in order that good may result.
    • So, it would be wrong to give someone that hasn't worked for the award an award.
    • Mr Clarke's department admitted it was wrong to name and shame the city as somewhere that had not passed on government cash for schools.
    • Many people said it was wrong to condemn future workers to worse pension arrangements.
    • Firstly it is illegal and also morally wrong to obtain copies of music or film or other entertainment without some form of payment.
    • There may occasionally be a situation where a decision is ethically correct but morally wrong.
    • The truth about alcohol is that it is sinful and wrong to consume alcohol in any quantity for recreational purposes.
    • The judge told Burnley Crown Court the defendant was not his normal self when he committed the offences and it would be wrong to send him to prison.
    Synonyms
    illegal, against the law, unlawful, illicit, indictable, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, delinquent, felonious, dishonest, dishonourable, corrupt
    unethical, immoral, morally wrong, bad, wicked, base, evil, sinful, foul, despicable, iniquitous, nefarious, blameworthy, condemnable, culpable
    informal crooked, shady
    British informal bent, not cricket
adverb rɒŋrɔŋ

  • 1In an unsuitable or undesirable manner or direction.

    （方式或方向）不适当地，不适宜地

    what am I doing wrong?

    我做错了什么吗？

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is said to have told his parents he had not done anything wrong and now faced returning to Britain to try to clear his name.
    • Nothing like this has ever happened to her, she just doesn't understand what she did wrong and why somebody would want to hurt her.
    • Now, if anybody should know whether we did wrong or not he should!
    • They're nasty and confusing and I'm obsessed that if I fill them in wrong they'll put me in prison or something.
    • I then proceeded to broil the first batch as I had the setting all wrong.
    • The 757 was intended to replace the 727, but for some reason Boeing got its market research wrong.
    • Just as the words left her mouth she knew she had said something wrong she could see it in his eyes.
    • Also note if you do not know, many civil servants are patriotic and would prefer to be corrected wherever they do wrong.
    • A herd of shoppers blocked my entrance into the parking lot, starting me off all wrong.
    • Perhaps the night felt so strange and wrong for that very reason.
    • The DNR showed me pictures of some markers that had been put up wrong on one of the trails.
    • With CBT I work hard on the things I am doing wrong and try to correct them, but this I can't justify to myself.
    • The eight-year-old has done little wrong in his two wins and, with Tony Dobbin on board, another strike looks on the cards.
    1. 1.1 With an incorrect result.
      不正确地；错误地
      she guessed wrong

      她猜错了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Perhaps they won't come to it with an open mind at all and will be angry that I got it all wrong.
      • We guessed wrong both times, but that's the way it is sometimes.
      • Update I think I got it a little bit wrong - technology can confuse me sometimes, folks.
      • After further review of the matter, I stick to my belief that the court got this one wrong.
      • It may seem hard to credit, but if a serious journalist gets a fact wrong it hurts.
      • If you get one area wrong, it impacts on the rest of the brand.
      • I tried spelling it maybe 16 different ways; they all look wrong, and now I'm in a foaming rage.
      • Unlike Binet, Piaget came to believe that the key to understanding children's cognitive development was not which questions children got wrong, but how they got them wrong.
      • Boris made the mistake of getting a few facts wrong in a controversial article that overall made an important point.
      • Somehow I don't think Tolstoy was interested in the Falklands… And the brainless morons kept getting them wrong - even the ones that had been answered correctly in previous rounds!
      • But jealous bullies made his life hell, calling him a ‘scab’ and a ‘traitor’ and yawning if he answered questions right and clapping if he got them wrong.
      • Unfortunately that was when I came to know that I had the train name wrong.
      • Courtney (J Rockwell's wife) was sitting next to me and she and I kept getting each answer right while the actual contestants kept getting them wrong.
      • She got it wrong on the restart, a little mistake but with big consequences for everybody else.
      • But authors pride themselves on getting things right and hate it when they get them wrong.
      • The artist said the names were spelled correctly on her sketches, but she got them wrong as she was doing the piece.
      • ChoicePoint got his middle name wrong and reported that there was a bench warrant for his arrest in Arizona.
      • If you guess right you will appear to be a genius, if you guess wrong you will look foolish.
      • However, this is yet further evidence of ISPs getting their sums wrong and getting customers to pay for the mistakes.
      • I just feel I need to get it very right because if you get it wrong you could offend a lot of people.
      Synonyms
      incorrectly, wrongly, inaccurately, erroneously, mistakenly
      inexactly, imprecisely, falsely
noun rɒŋrɔŋ

  • An unjust, dishonest, or immoral act.

    不公正的；不诚实的；不道德的

    I have done you a great wrong

    我使你受了很大的委屈。

    mass noun I was trying to teach my children right from wrong
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Isn't their job to advise their political bosses against wrongs?
    • Friends and relatives can forgive, and sometimes do, but they are forgiving the wrong done to them only.
    • They sought with the assistance of journalists to make public the wrongs which they allegedly suffered.
    • I cannot see how it is possible to right the wrong of murder or another crime with killing someone.
    • Each weblog we visit, the owner - myself included - pontificates on all the wrongs and evils of the day.
    • He has publicly denounced all the wrongs that were levelled on him.
    • This Government recognises that putting right these grievances, acknowledging wrongs, and providing redress is a necessary phase of our history and of moving forward.
    • Both wrongs also constituted a criminal offence.
    • At the heart of the business of being a writer, I assumed - apart from the necessity to earn a living - was an urge to right wrongs, to expose injustice.
    • There may be many good developments during the present regime; but to attribute all wrongs to previous regimes is not correct.
    • And there will be, inevitably, and quite immorally, an attempt to obscure the historical wrongs and the injustices that lie behind the firestorms.
    • Crimes are wrongs, not just against the victims, but also against society.
    • However we may feel about the rights and wrongs of their politics, it's important that we respect the name change.
    • People unavoidably pay a collective price for the misdeeds and wrongs of their leaders.
    • And there was much debate surrounding the rights and wrongs of it being funded by private finance.
    • Forgiveness is the act of setting someone free from an obligation to you that is a result of a wrong done against you.
    • This system is supposed to consider issues like fault and blame because it is designed to alleviate individual wrongs, not social grievances.
    • Maybe that will be the only time that these people will realise they have done a grievous wrong.
    • The unequal distribution of wealth, the increase in populations and grievances over past wrongs are still with us.
    • The new era of political correctness has seen a succession of apologies for past wrongs.
    Synonyms
    misdeed, bad deed, bad act/action, offence, injury, crime, unlawful act, illegal act, violation, infringement, infraction, transgression, peccadillo, sin
    injustice, unfairness, unjust act, grievance, outrage, atrocity
    Law malfeasance, tort
    archaic trespass
    rare malefaction
verb rɒŋrɔŋ
[with object]

  • 1Act unjustly or dishonestly towards.

    不公正（或不诚实）地对待（某人）

    they would kill a man who wronged a family
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She had been wronged as had been her family and she would make sure that her son got the justice he deserved.
    • They act with anger towards those who they feel have wronged them.
    • In your mind's eye, visualize someone who has hurt or wronged you.
    • I resent it when I'm wronged and I'm protective of those I care for.
    • It is never easy to swallow your pride when you feel you have been wronged.
    • If a citizen is wronged by any party, he or she can count on it that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will protect him and justice will prevail.
    • They are not wronging the owners of the stores; on the contrary, the owners of the stores have wronged them over the years by restricting their access to the goods they covet and to which they believe they have a right.
    • Let us extend our hands even to those who've wronged us.
    • When he feels somebody is wronging his client, he jumps in front of a microphone.
    • Any individual is entitled to criticise someone who has wronged them; the libel laws are there to prevent abuse.
    • Some people have told us that managers get promoted, or they get transferred, when they do things which are wrong, and the person who has been wronged is left to suffer.
    • In the Ancient Near East when a person felt he was wronged it was his obligation to seek personal justice by retaliating in kind.
    • Never forget that you a great debt to anyone whose ancestors may have been wronged by some distant relative of your ancestors.
    • Jules was capable of getting very aggressive towards people who wronged her and the people close to her.
    • When a perpetrator wrongs a person, she, the wronged party, typically has a personal reactive attitude of resentment.
    • But now I tell you do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you.
    • While both sides claim to have been wronged, Novak was hopeful that the campaign would provide an open forum for debate.
    • If I have wronged anyone in this way in the past, I am sorry for it.
    • Others admit they were trying to punish a family member or significant other who they felt had wronged them.
    • I've never told the two people I believe I've wronged the most how sorry I am
    1. 1.1 Mistakenly attribute bad motives to; misrepresent.
      冤枉；误解，曲解
      perhaps I wrong him

      也许是我冤枉了他。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Efforts are being made to allow ordinary citizens a more prompt and accessible redress where they feel they were wronged in a newspaper report.
      • Typically, people who feel wronged by the media sue for libel.
      • Because this is a novel, Glass can sketch nasty portraits of those close to him, all the while explaining how sorry he is that he wronged them.
      Synonyms
      malign, misrepresent, do a disservice to, do an injustice to, dishonour, impugn, vilify, defame, slander, libel, denigrate, insult
      mistreat, do wrong to, abuse, maltreat, ill-treat, ill-use, harm, hurt, injure, do injury to, offend against, oppress
      informal bad mouth, kick in the teeth, do the dirty on

Phrases

  • do wrong

    • Commit an unjust, dishonest, or immoral act.

      不公正的；不诚实的；不道德的

      they admit she has done wrong, but believe the punishment is too harsh
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In both cases, randomly selected groups of citizens are asked to impose punishment on those found to have done wrong.
      • We have done wrong and we ask you to forgive us.
      • You have done wrong, but in comparison to the very real evil that is sometimes revealed by prosecutors, your offending lies at the bottom of the scale.
      • The only real epiphany in the movie is the realization that we know right from wrong, and choose to do wrong anyway.
      • If you suffer because you've done wrong, you deserve it - acting like a martyr when you're reaping what you've sown does you no credit.
      • Criminals need to understand that if they do wrong they will be caught, they will be punished and it will be an unpleasant experience.
      • We try to do good and we end up doing wrong.
      • If it is true that we cannot do wrong without suffering wrong, we must brace for more grief to come.
      • By calling him a celebrity you almost make us feel that we need to do wrong in order to be recognised.
      • Church courts usually gave out easier punishments to churchmen who had done wrong.

  • do someone wrong

    • Treat someone unjustly.

      he sought revenge against those who had done him wrong
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Forget tearjerkers and 'He done me wrong' flicks.
      • Wickham also says that he will not run away from Darcy because he has no reason to be afraid since Darcy is the one who has done him wrong.
      • He hasn't done me wrong so far.
      • What was even worse was hearing women thank their doctors, who, in my opinion, had really done them wrong.
      • She isn't locked into the past either, where she's haunted by ghosts of ex-lovers who did her wrong.
      • I have a terrible nail-biting habit, and constantly bite and pick at them as if they done me wrong.
      • One day you will no longer care - much - that they both did you wrong.
      • She is a woman who lives to kill for justice and to have her revenge against a man who did her wrong.
      • In this difficult environment, one would expect Irish artists to be spending most of their time writing angry lyrics about how the record industry done them wrong before hanging up their guitars and putting on interview suits.
      • Bombarded with stories about unscrupulous corporate executives and the employees they done wrong, workers begin to gaze warily at their own managers.

  • fall (or get) into the wrong hands

    • (of information or an object) be stolen, or be found by an unfriendly person.

      this is a private letter that fell into the wrong hands
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We hope our work will stop some fireworks falling into the wrong hands.
      • A licence falling into the wrong hands could be abused with serious consequences.
      • People have been speculating about biological weapons falling into the wrong hands for decades now.
      • However, he said there is some concern the explosives could have fallen into the wrong hands.
      • They want a treaty to stop weapons getting into the wrong hands.
      • Heaven forbid they should ever fall into the wrong hands.
      • Indiana Jones sets off to prevent a powerful Chinese artifact from falling into the wrong hands.
      • There is no tracking mechanism to ensure they do not fall into the wrong hands.
      • Its falling into the wrong hands could mean total chaos.
      • The survey is being used to spearhead a national campaign for tougher legislation to prevent weapons falling into the wrong hands.

  • get someone wrong

    • Misunderstand someone, especially by falsely ascribing malice to them.

      误解某人；冤枉某人

      now, don't get me wrong, my fellow players are a great bunch of people
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Don't get me wrong: these are all people working in the game I love and for whom I have the greatest respect.
      • Don't get us wrong: we are happy to do the vaccinations, but we must be resourced.
      • Don't get me wrong, this is not me talking, I am just saying what his critics have said over the years.
      • Don't get us wrong - Phoenix Nights was funny while it lasted.
      • Don't get me wrong, this is a nicely written and well researched work.
      • Don't get me wrong: the best of these places still offer stunning terrain.
      • Don't get me wrong, there are other sports doing great things and Rugby Union for one is a prime example.
      • Don't get me wrong: I still think that the miners did not deserve their fate.
      • Don't get me wrong here, planting trees is a very noble pursuit, and should be encouraged.
      • Don't get us wrong, some of our best friends are engineers but a transit system is more than a collection of vehicles and schedules.
      Synonyms
      misunderstand, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconstrue, misconceive, mistake, misread, take amiss

  • get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick

    • Misunderstand something.

      误解某事；搞错

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I'm sorry to say that Leo Lewis got the wrong end of the stick in another respect, with major potential for cross-cultural misunderstanding.
      • The game was probably the most sensitive treatment and realistic treatment of battle displayed in a video game at that point, so obviously, the media got the wrong end of the stick.
      • ‘The teenagers were play fighting with each other, and it appears my client got the wrong end of the stick and became involved when he should not have,’ he said.
      • She mispronounced things, she got the wrong end of the stick, hilariously, and although I shook it all off in a way, or thought I did, something remained.
      • You all seemed to get the wrong end of the stick - but that's fine, that's OK; I appreciate the thought, really I do.
      • If you think I'm saying that any single person can post something out of the blue to the web and have thousands of people read it then you've obviously got the wrong end of the stick.
      • So members of the public get the wrong end of the stick but at least they can see a stick is there to be waved.
      • A number of those who did try to understand him got hold of the wrong end of the stick and, often unfairly, used it to beat him with.
      • It's a minefield where it's so easy to get the wrong end of the stick.
      • ‘I think you've got the wrong end of the stick,’ the chap at the other end of the phone replied.
      Synonyms
      misunderstand, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconstrue, misconceive, mistake, misread, take amiss

  • go down the wrong way

    • informal (of food) enter the windpipe instead of the gullet.

      （食物）进入气管，吃呛

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I fiddled with my knife until it hit an empty glass and went: ‘Clonggggg!’ and Roger's first mouthful of fizzy water went down the wrong way.
      • I mean, I was trying not to swallow it, and it was going down the wrong way and I really thought for a second I was going to die right there.
      • Adam, who had just popped a piece of the takoyaki into his mouth, almost choked on it as it went down the wrong way.
      • 36-year-old Sam Wright was enjoying a meal at a restaurant in Antrim, Northern Ireland, when a piece of bread went down the wrong way.
      • She said: ‘He said he had difficulty swallowing with the stroke and he said it was a bit of food that has gone down the wrong way.’
      • Feeding tubes are usually put in when a person can't swallow and will starve without assistance, and/or risk what's called aspiration pneumonia, which is when food goes down the wrong way and hits the lungs.
      • I swallowed eagerly and choked as it went down the wrong way.
      • He was alone in front of the television with his two pet dogs when the snack apparently went down the wrong way, causing him to faint and hit his head on the ground.
      • It hit me suddenly like a punch in the gut, some water went down the wrong way and I doubled over coughing it back up.
      • He said he thought the problem had been a bit of food going down the wrong way.

  • go wrong

    • 1Make a mistake.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I don't know where I've gone wrong.
      • I told him to stay on the motorway until we got near Warwick but after half an hour he went wrong again.
      • The big area where I personally went wrong was in estimating GDP growth.
      • I'm not happy with this - I've gone wrong somewhere, but I don't have time to explore it right now.
      • Can either of you point out where he's gone wrong?
      • Let me tell you where you went wrong.
      • After the exam don't spend endless time criticising yourself for where you think you went wrong.
      • Finding out where you went wrong is crucial, but may not be easy.
      • But in the meantime education and information initiatives would be introduced to let people know where they were going wrong.
      • Deciding we must have gone wrong somewhere, we rode all the way back.
      Synonyms
      make a mistake, make an error, err, make a blunder, blunder, go astray, miscalculate, be incorrect, be wide of the mark, trip up
      1. 1.1(of a device) malfunction; develop a fault.
        Example sentencesExamples
        • One in seven mobile phone handsets goes wrong within a year, according to consumer watchdog Which?
        • However, little things in the computer are starting to go wrong now.
        • I'm the guy he always calls when something is going wrong with his computer.
        • Most things that can go wrong with a PC do so in the first few months.
        • It is equally easy to determine what went wrong with that machine.
        • It's the washing machine that's gone wrong.
        • The heating went wrong and the phone to the front desk didn't work.
        • While there may be more things to go wrong on a modern car, manufacturers claim they are less likely to do so.
        • Even at work, it is useful to learn some of the basic things that can go wrong with your computer, so that you don't yell for a technician every time the power plug falls out of the wall socket.
        • If your PC goes wrong and needs rebuilding from scratch, it can be a lot quicker simply sticking in a tape and restoring the whole shooting match including Windows, Applications and data in one hit.
        Synonyms
        break down, malfunction, fail, stop working, stop functioning, cease to function, crash, give out, go out of control, develop a fault, act up, be defective
      2. 1.2Develop in an undesirable way.
        走入歧途，出错
        whenever things went wrong she would blame us
        Example sentencesExamples
        • Everything always went wrong, and they never had any money to do the things they wanted.
        • Now, as an inquiry takes place into what went wrong, it is vital to ensure that nothing like this occurs again.
        • He must be tearing his hair out right now because the team are going through one of those spells where everything that can go wrong, is going wrong.
        • The guy could not explain what went wrong because their account machinery was down.
        • However, things all went wrong when she helped the attendant to push the car out of the way and into a transformer.
        • If things are going wrong, we need to know that they are going wrong, so we can put them right.
        • You can look at six or seven line-outs and pinpoint one thing that went wrong in each of them.
        • As I tried to reach over and lift up the gate it crossed my mind that there might be a danger of me losing a finger if things went wrong.
        • Now they are performing a deconstruction of the chase and trying to find out what went wrong.
        • She had a great turn of phrase and sense of humour and could see the funny side even when things went wrong.
        Synonyms
        go awry, go amiss, go adrift, go off course, fail, not succeed, be unsuccessful, go badly, be ruined, fall through, fall flat, fall apart, come apart at the seams, break down, come to nothing, flounder, collapse, meet with disaster, backfire, rebound, boomerang, misfire, miscarry, abort

  • in the wrong

    • Responsible for a quarrel, mistake, or offence.

      为（争吵，错误，罪行）负责

      who was in the wrong?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I will happily stand up in court in any action you take against the store and say that your child was in the wrong.
      • Both of them think that the other is in the wrong, so it ends in a cold standoff.
      • The newcomers will be in the wrong if they enforce their negative characteristics on the hosts.
      • It's very easy to point the finger and accuse a famous person of being in the wrong.
      • Few would object to paying a fine if in the wrong, but when people have paid and paid again, it becomes a violation.
      • Last year a number of players were sent off in the wrong and they did not get justice.
      • They accepted that their athletes were in the wrong and deserved to be punished.
      • When I have tried to point out the cycle track I have been verbally abused even though they are in the wrong.
      • So in his world, it will be me that is in the wrong for swearing at him.
      • Even if the entire country thinks they are in the wrong, there's nothing anyone can do about it.
      Synonyms
      mistaken, in error, erring, errant, off course, off target, wide of the mark
      to blame, blameworthy, at fault, condemnable, censurable, reproachable, reprehensible, responsible, culpable, answerable, guilty

  • on the wrong side of

    • 1Out of favour with.

      she knew not to get on the wrong side of him
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Take care not to get on the wrong side of your boss.
      • We had been bigger once, but Laura is not a good person to get on the wrong side of, and you don't want to know what happened to the ones who were exiled.
      • Even though the press will split, with up to two-thirds against, it will need to be cautious if it doesn't want to get on the wrong side of its readers.
      • Two people who know only too well what it means to get on the wrong side of a swan are canoeists Ben and Bettina Phyllis from Wargrave near Henley.
      • Maria was big, loud and bursting with personality, though she wasn't the sort of woman you would want to get on the wrong side of.
      • She picked the wrong person to get on the wrong side of.
      • You don't really get any trouble unless you get on the wrong side of them.
      • This, after all, as Gerald Kaufman said, is a man ‘whom it is advisable not to get on the wrong side of.’
      • The latest fleet challenge is making sure vehicles have compliant handsets to make sure their drivers don't get on the wrong side of the new mobile phone legislation.
      • If I give an opinion, I'm going to get on the wrong side of either one of you.

    • 2Somewhat more than (a specified age)

      he cheerfully admits he is the wrong side of fifty
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For many of the players - those on the wrong side of 30 - this tournament is their last chance, after famous failures in 1995 and 1999.
      • Today, I chalk up yet another year on the wrong side of 35.
      • Unable to have any hot food or drink and as we are on the wrong side of 60, we were lucky to come out of it without becoming ill.
      • He was on the wrong side of 40 and was conscious of shepherding his resources.
      • My golf handicap is currently on the wrong side of twenty so I'll have to see what I can do about that!
      • Those on the wrong side of thirty or those who give top priority to the utility of the vehicle obviously prefer scooters.
      • Embarking on a sea change in career is not something to be taken lightly, especially when you are on the wrong side of 40.
      • While he may be on the wrong side of 30, he is back in the fold after three years in the international wilderness.
      • Bob's on the wrong side of forty and has been for some time.
      • At the post-match press conference, Connors, then on the wrong side of 30, was asked repeatedly about his retirement plans.

  • the wrong way round

    • In the opposite of the normal or desirable orientation, direction, or sequence.

      方向（或顺序）不对（或不正）地

      the batteries were in the wrong way round
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I decided not to mention that the battery had obviously been the wrong way round for some time, because I was worried that I then wouldn't be able to stop myself enquiring how she had managed to listen to any music in the first place.
      • The problem is that we have things the wrong way round, and that leads directly to the obesity epidemic.
      • An 81-year-old Chelmsford war veteran is refusing to pay a fine issued by borough council traffic wardens after accidentally placing his disabled permit the wrong way round in his car window.
      • The baby boy was facing the wrong way round and finally had to be delivered by caesarean section - and yes, Michael was in the operating theatre as well to watch Matthew weigh in at 5lbs 15 oz.
      • Polanski played the assailant as a cameo, and now claims he used a prop knife that was only hinged on one side (if he got it the wrong way round for a take, Nicholson's nose would really get cut) just to get that genuine look of fear.
      • This sort of proposition has the causal sequence the wrong way round.
      • Did no one tell him his socks were the wrong way round?
      • I didn't remind her of the time three years ago when she made plaster Snow White fridge magnets for the Winter Fayre which were actually fridge repellents because the magnets were the wrong way round.
      • Then he briefly glanced down because he was holding his gun the wrong way round and as he turned it round we legged it.
      • They start with a spat: ‘You twist and tore our love apart,’ accuses Barat; ‘You know you've got it the wrong way round,’ Doherty throws back.

  • two wrongs don't make a right

    • proverb The fact that someone has done something unjust or dishonest is no justification for acting in a similar way.

      〈谚〉以牙还牙行不通；两个错误不等于一个正确；不能因别人错了自己也就可以犯错

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I quite agree with the learned maestro that two wrongs don't make a right, but I do believe that the same decision should be given in both cases which as I have pointed out are identical, even if my decision was wrong.
      • There are other takeaways causing problems, but two wrongs don't make a right.
      • I know that but two wrongs don't make a right but I just don't want to be a part of this anymore.
      • Even if it's the case that the people who download this are trying to get illegal files, two wrongs don't make a right.
      • By this absurd reasoning, it was wrong to revolt against King George in the first place because we had to use force to get him out and, after all, two wrongs don't make a right, right?
      • Yeah, yeah, two wrongs don't make a right but I challenge anyone to witness the fear in the eyes of those poor kids and not feel a protective primeval urge to do something about it.
      • As parents, we teach our children not to retaliate and that two wrongs don't make a right.
      • The answers generally fell into two categories: The end justifies the means or two wrongs don't make a right.
      • ‘What one forgets is that these prisoners have been victims too, and two wrongs don't make a right,’ Mr Ellis said.
      • As the saying goes, in this circumstance, two wrongs don't make a right, regardless of his assumptions about legal and fiduciary responsibilities.

  • wrong side out

    • Inside out.

Derivatives

  • wronger

    • noun
    • In this case, the wrongers are a bunch of young city slickers weekending in a small southern mountain town where they can practice their dirtbiking and boozing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He's a wronger alright.

  • wrongness

    • noun ˈrɒŋnəsˈrɔŋnəs
    • Against what standard is this wrongness measured?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There's just a wrongness about him that makes my skin crawl.
      • Meat eating is certainly wrong according to the way he defines wrongness but there are many conceptions of wrongness.
      • The historians will sort out the rightness and the wrongness of the policy.
      • Need I elaborate on the wrongness of this interpretation?

Origin

Late Old English wrang, from Old Norse rangr 'awry, unjust'; related to wring.

  • An Old English word from Old Norse rangr ‘awry, unjust’, which first meant ‘crooked, curved, or twisted’ and is related to wring (Old English). Until the 17th century the wr- would have been pronounced, and there was obviously something about the sound that suggested the idea of twisting—many English words beginning with wr-, such as wrist, writhe, and wreathe (all OE), contain the notion. Although to get the wrong end of the stick now means ‘to misunderstand something’, the original sense seems to have been ‘to come off worse’. The example in The Swell's Night Guide, a guide to London low life published in 1846, gives an idea of what was wrong with the ‘wrong end’: ‘Which of us had hold of the crappy…end of the stick?’ The proverb two wrongs don't make a right dates from the late 18th century. The Hungarian-born psychiatrist Thomas Szasz summed up the feelings of many when he said in 1973: ‘Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.’

Rhymes

along, belong, bong, chaise longue, Geelong, gong, Guangdong, Haiphong, Heilong, Hong Kong, Jong, King Kong, long, mah-jong, Mao Zedong, Mekong, nong, pong, prolong, sarong, Shillong, song, souchong, strong, thong, throng, tong, Vietcong
adj.1
phr.

Definition of wrong in US English:

wrong

adjectiverɔŋrôNG

  • 1Not correct or true; incorrect.

    不正确的；错误的；不合乎事实的

    that is the wrong answer

    那是错误答案。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is, after all, a right and a wrong answer which means that the kind of fine judgements that only come with maturity are not required.
    • If the answer is wrong, the computer says the same and gives the correct answer.
    • Everything was dealing with people, and no right and wrong answers, and no scripts.
    • Max has a more hysteric method of asking, then screaming when I give the wrong answer.
    • I told her that no, every time I check things over, I change right answers into wrong ones.
    • After a moment he realized that and tried to fix it, but he still managed to get the wrong answer.
    • A correct answer wins six points, but a wrong answer loses the team five points.
    • The reader wants to know what factual material was wrong and what the true fact is.
    • He reacted to Newton's paper by claiming that what was original in the paper was wrong and what was correct in the paper was stolen from him.
    • It was the last quarter, and I was going through my trig homework, quickly writing down answers that were probably wrong.
    • Sometimes one of us got the wrong answer, sometimes the other.
    • He had to state that it was only half right, and the half he said was correct, was wrong.
    • My recollection is that the procedural history was this - I will stand corrected if I am wrong.
    • There is only one right answer and everything else is a wrong answer, only black and white.
    • Instead of correcting the wrong bits I should have just thrown the whole analogy back at him.
    • Both babies were tagged properly and put into the correct cots but the wrong baby was picked up.
    • The argument never ends because there isn't a right or wrong answer.
    • The experimenter records whether that answer was correct or wrong.
    • Some of you made some correct assumptions and some wrong ones.
    • In certain cases the customer, rather than the bank, is interested in having the wrong entry corrected.
    Synonyms
    incorrect, mistaken, in error, erroneous, inaccurate, not accurate, inexact, not exact, imprecise, invalid, untrue, false, fallacious, wide of the mark, off target
    1. 1.1predicative Having judged incorrectly; mistaken.
      I was wrong about him being on the yacht that evening

      他那晚没在游艇上，我弄错了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It would be wrong to perceive such a statement as defeatist.
      • While it would be wrong to say the two firms are desperate, it would also be wrong to say they are ambivalent about the outcome of their bid attempts.
      • The Attorney General submits that the Judge was wrong in respect of both rulings.
      • It would also be wrong to assume that the entire financial - services sector speaks with a single voice on the best way forward.
      • But it would be wrong to argue that all pirate radio in Ireland belonged to a tradition of rebellion.
      • On this appeal the Claimant contends that the Judge was wrong and should not in any event have decided the point summarily.
      • Mr Justice Sullivan ruled yesterday that Tendring Council was wrong to give the go-ahead for the housing estate.
      • Alex is wrong about this being a personal moral matter that does not affect public interest.
      • So, looking back, I was wrong to have made many of the initial judgments I had on my first few days in Shanghai.
      • Now I know it is wrong to give water to a person who has fainted or to cut open the wound to bleed out the poison from the body of a snakebite victim.
      • Even his father came around, admitting he was wrong about business and becoming hugely proud of his successful son.
      • Daunting as it nonetheless was, I was quite wrong to be so awed.
      • Since they were wrong about that, what else could they have been wrong about?
      • Can all of those people in the audience be wrong and those few judges be right?
      • Another way of putting it is to say the court will not interfere unless the judge is plainly wrong.
      • But he added it would be wrong to assume at this stage that mobile phones were hazardous to human health.
      • And of course, in our rush to judgment, we were wrong about the man from Cracow.
      • I now have to admit that I was wrong about this all being unfounded rumour.
      • It is hard to see how the judge could be wrong in his interpretation.
      • I think she's right about the condition, wrong about the timing and causes.
      Synonyms
      incorrect, mistaken, in error, erroneous, inaccurate, not accurate, inexact, not exact, imprecise, invalid, untrue, false, fallacious, wide of the mark, off target
    2. 1.2 Unsuitable or undesirable.
      不适当的，不合适的；不合意的
      they asked all the wrong questions

      他们问的问题都不合时宜。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A shadow seemed to pass over her face, and now it seemed that I had asked the wrong question.
      • Annoying as this can be when the questions come at the wrong time, it's great to have a child with an enquiring mind.
      • Miss Goddard said Saleem had fallen in with the wrong crowd and did not ask any questions when he allowed them to use the vehicles.
      • It is simply a question of a country, perhaps unconsciously, following the wrong policies.
      • But you are sure to rub lots of people the wrong way by asking such questions.
      • I see the need for political process to correct things that are wrong in society.
      • Reading through them I decided that the bars in question were wrong for the lines of words.
      • This man is taking stick over these allegations but what worries me most is when some bloggers seem to think that if true, nothing is wrong.
      • In my judgment the court did not apply the wrong definition of smoke, and so the second question posed should be answered in the negative.
      • This is exactly the kind of report you get when you ask the wrong question.
      • And if what we think is true is based on wrong ideas or impressions, the results can be devastating.
      • As a coaching staff, we expect certain standards and I don't think it's wrong to demand those standards of the players.
      • Midori tells me to not take it the wrong way but it's a question of my youth.
      • Perhaps we have, like Alice, simply been asking the wrong question.
      • This is a natural question to ask, when your portfolio is in a mess, but unfortunately it's the wrong question.
      • I spent the rest of the morning asking all the right questions in all the wrong places.
      • Shifting his imposing frame, his expression takes on a thunderous aspect, suggesting this is the wrong question to ask.
      • Paul Eves can do no wrong in his portrayal of a security guard that always poses the wrong question at the wrong time.
      • But it is wrong to become a slave to food or to let it control you.
      • In the circumstances this was clearly the wrong question because it produced an angry, questioning tirade.
      Synonyms
      inappropriate, unsuitable, inapt, inapposite, undesirable
    3. 1.3predicative In a bad or abnormal condition; amiss.
      坏的；不正常的；有毛病的
      something was wrong with the pump

      那个泵出了问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • What could be wrong with this non-carcinogenic, non-resource-wasting joy?
      • Dairy products were blamed for virtually everything medically wrong with the younger generation.
      • It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it!
      • I spoke to a man tonight about what was wrong with the world.
      • After marrying in 1999, we had tried in vain for three years to conceive even though there was nothing really wrong with us.
      • I don't know what's wrong with it and Anthony has yet to come look at it.
      • It's like your heart pains and you wonder what's wrong with human beings.
      • The buzzers would go off in the night and when the nurses came to see what was wrong they would find the patients fast asleep.
      • Plainly, something is wrong with him, so it's no surprise that he's wearing a hospital bracelet.
      • They have had him on an intravenous drip, and they need to try to diagnose exactly what is wrong with him.
      • Before a ball has been kicked, our festival of the beautiful game has already been depicted as an ugly carnival of all that is wrong with the world.
      • Some readers, undoubtedly, will ask what could be wrong with that scenario.
      • This Christmas, which Matt spent on the Ivory Coast, a local boy got sick and nobody knew what was wrong with him.
      • You know, technology caught up with precisely what was wrong with the way that I used food.
      • Doctors were unable to find out exactly what was wrong with Chloe and her condition remains undiagnosed.
      • He knew that something was wrong and never stopped to think about the dangers involved and that demonstrates what a brave man he was.
      • She's seen innumerable specialists, all of whom have been baffled as to what could be wrong with her and then passing her on to someone else.
      • What's wrong with people that they can't look each other in the eye with respect and without motivation?
      • Can anyone tell me what is wrong with that paragraph and why it is self-refuting?
      • Litter on our streets, anti-social behaviour, dereliction - we all know what is wrong with our town.
      Synonyms
      amiss, awry, out of order, not right, faulty, defective, unsatisfactory, incorrect, inappropriate

  • 2Unjust, dishonest, or immoral.

    不公正的；不诚实的；不道德的

    they were wrong to take the law into their own hands

    他们把法律控制在自己手里是不对的。

    it was wrong of me to write you such an angry note

    我给你写这么一张措辞激愤的纸条是不对的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is wrong to illegally download, but the answer cannot be jail.
    • Mr. Kelly added that it would be wrong to condemn the lack of a parade and then do nothing about it.
    • So, it would be wrong to give someone that hasn't worked for the award an award.
    • There may occasionally be a situation where a decision is ethically correct but morally wrong.
    • Many people said it was wrong to condemn future workers to worse pension arrangements.
    • It is wrong to make it illegal to lower the cost of tax and lower the cost to seniors.
    • He said it was wrong to expect the Council to always clean up such areas but it was also wrong to expect the residents to put up with the problem.
    • The truth about alcohol is that it is sinful and wrong to consume alcohol in any quantity for recreational purposes.
    • However, it is important that children are given the message that it is wrong to bully, and that if they are being bullied they must tell an adult.
    • They feel that it's wrong to privilege scientific over other types of knowledge.
    • It is quite wrong to try to drive farmers down this avenue.
    • If it's wrong to extol virtue, it should be wrong to condemn a vice like hypocrisy.
    • Firstly it is illegal and also morally wrong to obtain copies of music or film or other entertainment without some form of payment.
    • Mr Clarke's department admitted it was wrong to name and shame the city as somewhere that had not passed on government cash for schools.
    • It is wrong to ask clubs to play games without their county players.
    • The stepmother in the Snow White tale was evil, and she was wrong to try to deceive and kill Snow White.
    • The uncompromisable principle is that it is always wrong to do evil in order that good may result.
    • They also use the argument that if we didn't oppose something else, we are wrong to oppose this.
    • The judge told Burnley Crown Court the defendant was not his normal self when he committed the offences and it would be wrong to send him to prison.
    • Kelly was completely responsible for his own plight, and was wrong to be a whistleblower.
    Synonyms
    illegal, against the law, unlawful, illicit, indictable, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, delinquent, felonious, dishonest, dishonourable, corrupt
adverbrɔŋrôNG

  • 1In an unsuitable or undesirable manner or direction.

    （方式或方向）不适当地，不适宜地

    what am I doing wrong?

    我做错了什么吗？

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Also note if you do not know, many civil servants are patriotic and would prefer to be corrected wherever they do wrong.
    • Now, if anybody should know whether we did wrong or not he should!
    • I then proceeded to broil the first batch as I had the setting all wrong.
    • They're nasty and confusing and I'm obsessed that if I fill them in wrong they'll put me in prison or something.
    • The 757 was intended to replace the 727, but for some reason Boeing got its market research wrong.
    • Perhaps the night felt so strange and wrong for that very reason.
    • A herd of shoppers blocked my entrance into the parking lot, starting me off all wrong.
    • The DNR showed me pictures of some markers that had been put up wrong on one of the trails.
    • Just as the words left her mouth she knew she had said something wrong she could see it in his eyes.
    • He is said to have told his parents he had not done anything wrong and now faced returning to Britain to try to clear his name.
    • With CBT I work hard on the things I am doing wrong and try to correct them, but this I can't justify to myself.
    • The eight-year-old has done little wrong in his two wins and, with Tony Dobbin on board, another strike looks on the cards.
    • Nothing like this has ever happened to her, she just doesn't understand what she did wrong and why somebody would want to hurt her.
    1. 1.1 With an incorrect result.
      不正确地；错误地
      she guessed wrong

      她猜错了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Unlike Binet, Piaget came to believe that the key to understanding children's cognitive development was not which questions children got wrong, but how they got them wrong.
      • Unfortunately that was when I came to know that I had the train name wrong.
      • Courtney (J Rockwell's wife) was sitting next to me and she and I kept getting each answer right while the actual contestants kept getting them wrong.
      • If you guess right you will appear to be a genius, if you guess wrong you will look foolish.
      • The artist said the names were spelled correctly on her sketches, but she got them wrong as she was doing the piece.
      • But authors pride themselves on getting things right and hate it when they get them wrong.
      • It may seem hard to credit, but if a serious journalist gets a fact wrong it hurts.
      • ChoicePoint got his middle name wrong and reported that there was a bench warrant for his arrest in Arizona.
      • Somehow I don't think Tolstoy was interested in the Falklands… And the brainless morons kept getting them wrong - even the ones that had been answered correctly in previous rounds!
      • Update I think I got it a little bit wrong - technology can confuse me sometimes, folks.
      • I just feel I need to get it very right because if you get it wrong you could offend a lot of people.
      • After further review of the matter, I stick to my belief that the court got this one wrong.
      • We guessed wrong both times, but that's the way it is sometimes.
      • Boris made the mistake of getting a few facts wrong in a controversial article that overall made an important point.
      • She got it wrong on the restart, a little mistake but with big consequences for everybody else.
      • If you get one area wrong, it impacts on the rest of the brand.
      • However, this is yet further evidence of ISPs getting their sums wrong and getting customers to pay for the mistakes.
      • I tried spelling it maybe 16 different ways; they all look wrong, and now I'm in a foaming rage.
      • Perhaps they won't come to it with an open mind at all and will be angry that I got it all wrong.
      • But jealous bullies made his life hell, calling him a ‘scab’ and a ‘traitor’ and yawning if he answered questions right and clapping if he got them wrong.
      Synonyms
      incorrectly, wrongly, inaccurately, erroneously, mistakenly
nounrɔŋrôNG

  • 1An unjust, dishonest, or immoral action.

    不公正的；不诚实的；不道德的

    I have done you a great wrong

    我使你受了很大的委屈。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And there will be, inevitably, and quite immorally, an attempt to obscure the historical wrongs and the injustices that lie behind the firestorms.
    • He has publicly denounced all the wrongs that were levelled on him.
    • The unequal distribution of wealth, the increase in populations and grievances over past wrongs are still with us.
    • People unavoidably pay a collective price for the misdeeds and wrongs of their leaders.
    • Friends and relatives can forgive, and sometimes do, but they are forgiving the wrong done to them only.
    • Each weblog we visit, the owner - myself included - pontificates on all the wrongs and evils of the day.
    • This system is supposed to consider issues like fault and blame because it is designed to alleviate individual wrongs, not social grievances.
    • Both wrongs also constituted a criminal offence.
    • Forgiveness is the act of setting someone free from an obligation to you that is a result of a wrong done against you.
    • The new era of political correctness has seen a succession of apologies for past wrongs.
    • I cannot see how it is possible to right the wrong of murder or another crime with killing someone.
    • There may be many good developments during the present regime; but to attribute all wrongs to previous regimes is not correct.
    • However we may feel about the rights and wrongs of their politics, it's important that we respect the name change.
    • And there was much debate surrounding the rights and wrongs of it being funded by private finance.
    • Isn't their job to advise their political bosses against wrongs?
    • At the heart of the business of being a writer, I assumed - apart from the necessity to earn a living - was an urge to right wrongs, to expose injustice.
    • Maybe that will be the only time that these people will realise they have done a grievous wrong.
    • This Government recognises that putting right these grievances, acknowledging wrongs, and providing redress is a necessary phase of our history and of moving forward.
    • Crimes are wrongs, not just against the victims, but also against society.
    • They sought with the assistance of journalists to make public the wrongs which they allegedly suffered.
    Synonyms
    misdeed, bad deed, bad act, bad action, offence, injury, crime, unlawful act, illegal act, violation, infringement, infraction, transgression, peccadillo, sin
    1. 1.1Law A breach, by commission or omission, of one's legal duty.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Equitable compensation is available to redress equitable wrongs such as breach of fiduciary duty on much the same basis as compensatory damages would be available in a torts case.
      • The second group of cases within this head of equitable jurisdiction is far more important: injunctions to restrain legal wrongs.
    2. 1.2Law An invasion of right to the damage or prejudice of another.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The wrong for which user damages compensate a claimant is the defendant's use for his own benefit of the goods.
      • Mr. Daiches further submitted that I should follow the common law in not awarding damages for future wrongs.
      • Trial lawyers representing plaintiff rights can sue and win compensation and punitive money damages to redress the wrongs done to their clients.
      • The legal system calls these tort reforms, a branch of the law which determines what someone can recover in damages for wrongs that someone else has done to them.
      • Again, aggravated damages must arise from an independent actionable wrong.
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[with object]

  • 1Act unjustly or dishonestly toward.

    不公正（或不诚实）地对待（某人）

    please forgive me these things and the people I have wronged

    我做错了这些事，错待了很多人，请宽恕我吧。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In your mind's eye, visualize someone who has hurt or wronged you.
    • If I have wronged anyone in this way in the past, I am sorry for it.
    • They act with anger towards those who they feel have wronged them.
    • But now I tell you do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you.
    • Let us extend our hands even to those who've wronged us.
    • While both sides claim to have been wronged, Novak was hopeful that the campaign would provide an open forum for debate.
    • I've never told the two people I believe I've wronged the most how sorry I am
    • When a perpetrator wrongs a person, she, the wronged party, typically has a personal reactive attitude of resentment.
    • Any individual is entitled to criticise someone who has wronged them; the libel laws are there to prevent abuse.
    • When he feels somebody is wronging his client, he jumps in front of a microphone.
    • It is never easy to swallow your pride when you feel you have been wronged.
    • Jules was capable of getting very aggressive towards people who wronged her and the people close to her.
    • Others admit they were trying to punish a family member or significant other who they felt had wronged them.
    • Never forget that you a great debt to anyone whose ancestors may have been wronged by some distant relative of your ancestors.
    • They are not wronging the owners of the stores; on the contrary, the owners of the stores have wronged them over the years by restricting their access to the goods they covet and to which they believe they have a right.
    • In the Ancient Near East when a person felt he was wronged it was his obligation to seek personal justice by retaliating in kind.
    • Some people have told us that managers get promoted, or they get transferred, when they do things which are wrong, and the person who has been wronged is left to suffer.
    • If a citizen is wronged by any party, he or she can count on it that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will protect him and justice will prevail.
    • She had been wronged as had been her family and she would make sure that her son got the justice he deserved.
    • I resent it when I'm wronged and I'm protective of those I care for.
    1. 1.1 Mistakenly attribute bad motives to; misrepresent.
      冤枉；误解，曲解
      perhaps I wrong him

      也许是我冤枉了他。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Typically, people who feel wronged by the media sue for libel.
      • Efforts are being made to allow ordinary citizens a more prompt and accessible redress where they feel they were wronged in a newspaper report.
      • Because this is a novel, Glass can sketch nasty portraits of those close to him, all the while explaining how sorry he is that he wronged them.
      Synonyms
      malign, misrepresent, do a disservice to, do an injustice to, dishonour, impugn, vilify, defame, slander, libel, denigrate, insult

Phrases

  • do wrong

    • Commit an unjust, dishonest, or immoral act.

      不公正的；不诚实的；不道德的

      they admit she has done wrong, but believe the punishment is too harsh
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The only real epiphany in the movie is the realization that we know right from wrong, and choose to do wrong anyway.
      • In both cases, randomly selected groups of citizens are asked to impose punishment on those found to have done wrong.
      • We have done wrong and we ask you to forgive us.
      • If it is true that we cannot do wrong without suffering wrong, we must brace for more grief to come.
      • Church courts usually gave out easier punishments to churchmen who had done wrong.
      • We try to do good and we end up doing wrong.
      • By calling him a celebrity you almost make us feel that we need to do wrong in order to be recognised.
      • If you suffer because you've done wrong, you deserve it - acting like a martyr when you're reaping what you've sown does you no credit.
      • Criminals need to understand that if they do wrong they will be caught, they will be punished and it will be an unpleasant experience.
      • You have done wrong, but in comparison to the very real evil that is sometimes revealed by prosecutors, your offending lies at the bottom of the scale.

  • do someone wrong

    • Treat someone unjustly.

      he sought revenge against those who had done him wrong
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She is a woman who lives to kill for justice and to have her revenge against a man who did her wrong.
      • She isn't locked into the past either, where she's haunted by ghosts of ex-lovers who did her wrong.
      • Wickham also says that he will not run away from Darcy because he has no reason to be afraid since Darcy is the one who has done him wrong.
      • Forget tearjerkers and 'He done me wrong' flicks.
      • Bombarded with stories about unscrupulous corporate executives and the employees they done wrong, workers begin to gaze warily at their own managers.
      • One day you will no longer care - much - that they both did you wrong.
      • What was even worse was hearing women thank their doctors, who, in my opinion, had really done them wrong.
      • He hasn't done me wrong so far.
      • I have a terrible nail-biting habit, and constantly bite and pick at them as if they done me wrong.
      • In this difficult environment, one would expect Irish artists to be spending most of their time writing angry lyrics about how the record industry done them wrong before hanging up their guitars and putting on interview suits.

  • get someone wrong

    • Misunderstand someone, especially by falsely imputing malice.

      误解某人；冤枉某人

      now, don't get me wrong, my fellow players are a great bunch of people
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Don't get us wrong: we are happy to do the vaccinations, but we must be resourced.
      • Don't get us wrong, some of our best friends are engineers but a transit system is more than a collection of vehicles and schedules.
      • Don't get me wrong, this is not me talking, I am just saying what his critics have said over the years.
      • Don't get me wrong: I still think that the miners did not deserve their fate.
      • Don't get me wrong: these are all people working in the game I love and for whom I have the greatest respect.
      • Don't get me wrong here, planting trees is a very noble pursuit, and should be encouraged.
      • Don't get us wrong - Phoenix Nights was funny while it lasted.
      • Don't get me wrong, this is a nicely written and well researched work.
      • Don't get me wrong: the best of these places still offer stunning terrain.
      • Don't get me wrong, there are other sports doing great things and Rugby Union for one is a prime example.
      Synonyms
      misunderstand, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconstrue, misconceive, mistake, misread, take amiss

  • go down the wrong way

    • informal (of food) enter the windpipe instead of the gullet.

      （食物）进入气管，吃呛

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She said: ‘He said he had difficulty swallowing with the stroke and he said it was a bit of food that has gone down the wrong way.’
      • It hit me suddenly like a punch in the gut, some water went down the wrong way and I doubled over coughing it back up.
      • Adam, who had just popped a piece of the takoyaki into his mouth, almost choked on it as it went down the wrong way.
      • He was alone in front of the television with his two pet dogs when the snack apparently went down the wrong way, causing him to faint and hit his head on the ground.
      • I fiddled with my knife until it hit an empty glass and went: ‘Clonggggg!’ and Roger's first mouthful of fizzy water went down the wrong way.
      • I mean, I was trying not to swallow it, and it was going down the wrong way and I really thought for a second I was going to die right there.
      • 36-year-old Sam Wright was enjoying a meal at a restaurant in Antrim, Northern Ireland, when a piece of bread went down the wrong way.
      • He said he thought the problem had been a bit of food going down the wrong way.
      • Feeding tubes are usually put in when a person can't swallow and will starve without assistance, and/or risk what's called aspiration pneumonia, which is when food goes down the wrong way and hits the lungs.
      • I swallowed eagerly and choked as it went down the wrong way.

  • go wrong

    • 1Make a mistake.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • After the exam don't spend endless time criticising yourself for where you think you went wrong.
      • Finding out where you went wrong is crucial, but may not be easy.
      • Let me tell you where you went wrong.
      • But in the meantime education and information initiatives would be introduced to let people know where they were going wrong.
      • Can either of you point out where he's gone wrong?
      • I don't know where I've gone wrong.
      • The big area where I personally went wrong was in estimating GDP growth.
      • I'm not happy with this - I've gone wrong somewhere, but I don't have time to explore it right now.
      • Deciding we must have gone wrong somewhere, we rode all the way back.
      • I told him to stay on the motorway until we got near Warwick but after half an hour he went wrong again.
      Synonyms
      make a mistake, make an error, err, make a blunder, blunder, go astray, miscalculate, be incorrect, be wide of the mark, trip up
      1. 1.1(of a device) malfunction; develop a fault.
        Example sentencesExamples
        • The heating went wrong and the phone to the front desk didn't work.
        • I'm the guy he always calls when something is going wrong with his computer.
        • Even at work, it is useful to learn some of the basic things that can go wrong with your computer, so that you don't yell for a technician every time the power plug falls out of the wall socket.
        • If your PC goes wrong and needs rebuilding from scratch, it can be a lot quicker simply sticking in a tape and restoring the whole shooting match including Windows, Applications and data in one hit.
        • However, little things in the computer are starting to go wrong now.
        • It is equally easy to determine what went wrong with that machine.
        • One in seven mobile phone handsets goes wrong within a year, according to consumer watchdog Which?
        • While there may be more things to go wrong on a modern car, manufacturers claim they are less likely to do so.
        • It's the washing machine that's gone wrong.
        • Most things that can go wrong with a PC do so in the first few months.
        Synonyms
        break down, malfunction, fail, stop working, stop functioning, cease to function, crash, give out, go out of control, develop a fault, act up, be defective
      2. 1.2Develop in an undesirable way.
        走入歧途，出错
        the government has ordered an inquiry to ascertain what went wrong
        Example sentencesExamples
        • As I tried to reach over and lift up the gate it crossed my mind that there might be a danger of me losing a finger if things went wrong.
        • Now, as an inquiry takes place into what went wrong, it is vital to ensure that nothing like this occurs again.
        • If things are going wrong, we need to know that they are going wrong, so we can put them right.
        • The guy could not explain what went wrong because their account machinery was down.
        • Now they are performing a deconstruction of the chase and trying to find out what went wrong.
        • She had a great turn of phrase and sense of humour and could see the funny side even when things went wrong.
        • He must be tearing his hair out right now because the team are going through one of those spells where everything that can go wrong, is going wrong.
        • Everything always went wrong, and they never had any money to do the things they wanted.
        • However, things all went wrong when she helped the attendant to push the car out of the way and into a transformer.
        • You can look at six or seven line-outs and pinpoint one thing that went wrong in each of them.
        Synonyms
        go awry, go amiss, go adrift, go off course, fail, not succeed, be unsuccessful, go badly, be ruined, fall through, fall flat, fall apart, come apart at the seams, break down, come to nothing, flounder, collapse, meet with disaster, backfire, rebound, boomerang, misfire, miscarry, abort

  • in the wrong

    • Responsible for a quarrel, mistake, or offense.

      为（争吵，错误，罪行）负责

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Both of them think that the other is in the wrong, so it ends in a cold standoff.
      • The newcomers will be in the wrong if they enforce their negative characteristics on the hosts.
      • Last year a number of players were sent off in the wrong and they did not get justice.
      • Few would object to paying a fine if in the wrong, but when people have paid and paid again, it becomes a violation.
      • When I have tried to point out the cycle track I have been verbally abused even though they are in the wrong.
      • I will happily stand up in court in any action you take against the store and say that your child was in the wrong.
      • Even if the entire country thinks they are in the wrong, there's nothing anyone can do about it.
      • They accepted that their athletes were in the wrong and deserved to be punished.
      • So in his world, it will be me that is in the wrong for swearing at him.
      • It's very easy to point the finger and accuse a famous person of being in the wrong.
      Synonyms
      mistaken, in error, erring, errant, off course, off target, wide of the mark
      to blame, blameworthy, at fault, condemnable, censurable, reproachable, reprehensible, responsible, culpable, answerable, guilty

  • on the wrong side of

    • 1Out of favor with.

      she knew not to get on the wrong side of him
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even though the press will split, with up to two-thirds against, it will need to be cautious if it doesn't want to get on the wrong side of its readers.
      • You don't really get any trouble unless you get on the wrong side of them.
      • Two people who know only too well what it means to get on the wrong side of a swan are canoeists Ben and Bettina Phyllis from Wargrave near Henley.
      • We had been bigger once, but Laura is not a good person to get on the wrong side of, and you don't want to know what happened to the ones who were exiled.
      • This, after all, as Gerald Kaufman said, is a man ‘whom it is advisable not to get on the wrong side of.’
      • Take care not to get on the wrong side of your boss.
      • She picked the wrong person to get on the wrong side of.
      • The latest fleet challenge is making sure vehicles have compliant handsets to make sure their drivers don't get on the wrong side of the new mobile phone legislation.
      • If I give an opinion, I'm going to get on the wrong side of either one of you.
      • Maria was big, loud and bursting with personality, though she wasn't the sort of woman you would want to get on the wrong side of.

    • 2Somewhat more than (a specified age)

      he cheerfully admits he is the wrong side of fifty
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Today, I chalk up yet another year on the wrong side of 35.
      • At the post-match press conference, Connors, then on the wrong side of 30, was asked repeatedly about his retirement plans.
      • For many of the players - those on the wrong side of 30 - this tournament is their last chance, after famous failures in 1995 and 1999.
      • Bob's on the wrong side of forty and has been for some time.
      • Those on the wrong side of thirty or those who give top priority to the utility of the vehicle obviously prefer scooters.
      • While he may be on the wrong side of 30, he is back in the fold after three years in the international wilderness.
      • Unable to have any hot food or drink and as we are on the wrong side of 60, we were lucky to come out of it without becoming ill.
      • He was on the wrong side of 40 and was conscious of shepherding his resources.
      • My golf handicap is currently on the wrong side of twenty so I'll have to see what I can do about that!
      • Embarking on a sea change in career is not something to be taken lightly, especially when you are on the wrong side of 40.

  • two wrongs don't make a right

    • proverb The fact that someone has done something unjust or dishonest is no justification for acting in a similar way.

      〈谚〉以牙还牙行不通；两个错误不等于一个正确；不能因别人错了自己也就可以犯错

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yeah, yeah, two wrongs don't make a right but I challenge anyone to witness the fear in the eyes of those poor kids and not feel a protective primeval urge to do something about it.
      • I know that but two wrongs don't make a right but I just don't want to be a part of this anymore.
      • As parents, we teach our children not to retaliate and that two wrongs don't make a right.
      • By this absurd reasoning, it was wrong to revolt against King George in the first place because we had to use force to get him out and, after all, two wrongs don't make a right, right?
      • There are other takeaways causing problems, but two wrongs don't make a right.
      • I quite agree with the learned maestro that two wrongs don't make a right, but I do believe that the same decision should be given in both cases which as I have pointed out are identical, even if my decision was wrong.
      • ‘What one forgets is that these prisoners have been victims too, and two wrongs don't make a right,’ Mr Ellis said.
      • The answers generally fell into two categories: The end justifies the means or two wrongs don't make a right.
      • Even if it's the case that the people who download this are trying to get illegal files, two wrongs don't make a right.
      • As the saying goes, in this circumstance, two wrongs don't make a right, regardless of his assumptions about legal and fiduciary responsibilities.

  • wrong side out

    • Inside out.

Origin

Late Old English wrang, from Old Norse rangr ‘awry, unjust’; related to wring.

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