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词汇 example_english_wrong-turn
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wrong turn

collocation in English

meanings of wrongand turn


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wrong
adjective
uk /rɒŋ/ us /rɑːŋ/
not ...
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turn
noun
uk /tɜːn/ us /tɝːn/
an opportunity or a duty to do something at a particular time or in a particular order, before or after ...
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Examples of wrong turn


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That proved to be a wrongturn.
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However, the optimization process is still proceeding in small steps and a step backwards does not necessarily mean that optimization is taking a "wrongturn".
Being close meant that grandparents felt they had to support their children, even though their lives had taken a wrongturn in some way.
Most people recognise that housing policy took a very bad wrongturn in providing tower blocks.
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We must make sure that that wrongturn is not taken.
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Apparently, the convoy took more than one wrongturn.
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He also took a momentary wrongturn near the finish.
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It will be open to him then to make comment if he feels that the discussions in another place have taken the wrongturn.
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The captain came to the conclusion that he had taken a wrongturn and walked into the sea on a particularly stormy night.
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It is not seen as a wrongturn, culturally speaking, but as a great opportunity for cultural enrichment and a chance to increase democratic involvement.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There are some people who think that this country, in pursuit of the aim of being the workshop of the world, took a wrongturn.
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This one element represents a complete wrongturn for a report that otherwise takes a sound approach, and it is a turn that is morally perilous.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This poignant photo novella tells the story of consequence when innocence takes a wrongturn.
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Brief panic resulted when he became confused and took a wrongturn.
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The thieves take a wrongturn in the woods and crash their car.
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However, he takes a wrongturn and the truck crashes into a ditch.
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Most did not realize for several days or even weeks they had made a wrongturn.
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Rooms may change appearance upon being revisited; making a wrongturn may result in a strange scene.
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After taking a wrongturn, the band ended up stranded in a haunted ghost town, attacked by its ghoulish residents.
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From the standpoint of macroeconomic engineering, the work of the past several decades looks like an unfortunate wrongturn.
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One of its companies entered the town, but then it took a wrongturn at a fork in the road and reached a dead end.
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She takes a wrongturn and nearly walks into where they keep the "house" garbage implying that there are other locations that produce waste.
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If a group splits up into several subgroups moving at different speeds, one of the subgroups may take a wrongturn at a trail junction.
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Apocryphal stories tell of him helping up competitors who had fallen, and re-directing someone who had taken a wrongturn on a cross-country course.
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If the player takes a wrongturn or misses a turn, he or she may crash into a door, grate or wall, ending the game.
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