| 词汇 | misapply |
| 释义 | misapply verb[ T ] uk /ˌmɪs.əˈplaɪ/ us /ˌmɪs.əˈplaɪ/ to use something badly, wrongly, or in a way that was not intended: 用错;误用;滥用 It will be impossible to recover all the misapplied charity money.想要追回所有被滥用的慈善钱款是不可能的。 Synonym misuse Using and misusing adopt adoption avail avail yourself of something be/go heavy on somethingidiom exhaust give/allow something full playidiom go into something go through gobble something up make capital out of somethingidiom spare spent swallow tap turn to someone/something turn/use something to good accountidiom unblock underuse underused Related wordmisapplication misapply | Business Englishmisapply verb[ T ] formal/ˌmɪsəˈplaɪ/ukus to use something in a way that is wrong or illegal: The trader pleaded guilty to misapplying millions of dollars and falsifying records. Did the department intentionally misapply the accounting rules? Examples of misapplymisapply This list excludes many other areas of research that are less easily distinguished but equally dangerous if misapplied. At the very least, one could object that the notion of multiple passivization is misapplied here, as the formal similarity is plausibly regarded as concord. Not only are secondary sources often over-used, they are frequently misapplied. Alternatively, they may take the judgment to other authorities through the petitioning system (shangfang), and claim that the courts have misapplied the laws. This means that purely ethical consistency arguments are often misapplied, because they assume a transitivity of moral acceptability that often is not there. As with all psychiatric terms, personality disorder can be misapplied as a pejorative label. This could be because the forms have been misapplied, and a synthesised organisation of the basic idea or pattern has not been achieved. It is not surprising that subjects make errors by misapplying strategies that work for other tasks. Primitive operations that may be misapplied are highlighted in red, while the rest are highlighted in green. They will tend to misapply rules to themselves, particularly when the rule is formulated in pejorative language. Dworkin urges that prior decisions misapplied the concept and therefore misapplied the law. Even if it is not dangerous, the drugs can be misapplied or misdirected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It unifies a valley by clear demarcation instead of confusing and depriving the citizens of the valley by splitting villages and misapplying scarce resources. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have almost grotesquely misapplied the whole concept of fairness repeatedly in many of their policies over the past two and a half years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If young people are being let down in a particular area, if resources are being misapplied, we need to instigate action on their behalf. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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