词汇 | amiss |
释义 | amiss adjective[ after verb ] uk /əˈmɪs/ us /əˈmɪs/ wrong, not suitable, or not as expected: 不对的;不合适的;不正常的 I could see by the look on their faces that something was amiss.我从他们的神情上看出,有什么事情出了差错。 not go amissUKinformal If something might/would not go amiss, it would be useful and might help to improve a situation: 并非无用;并非没益处 A word of apology might not go amiss.道个歉或许并无坏处。 take something amiss to be offended by something that someone has said to you: 友好,和睦 I was worried that he might take my remark amiss.我担心他对我的话也许会见怪。 Wrong aberrant aberrantly abnormal anomalous awry false false negative false positive falsely flawed invalidly irregularly liberal liberally mal- quarrel wrongheaded wrongheadedly wrongly X, x You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unsuitable and unacceptable amiss | American Dictionaryamiss adjective us/əˈmɪs/ not right; not suitable or as expected: He suspected something was amiss. Examples of amissamiss Since she is not royalty, nor lady, nor, by her own confession, "amiss," the curtain is rung down on this puzzler. A few more words on seismic resolution and its physical basis would not have come amiss. The hedging with ' virtually ' is a second clue that something is amiss. In fact information about the authors and where they come from would not be amiss. Either way, a definition would not go amiss. She only felt that there was something irrevocably amiss and lost in her lot. The information is brief enough to be unhelpful, and a list of further reading would not have gone amiss. No one is asking for pages of purple prose, but an awareness of the maintenance of interest would not come amiss. They all suggest that there is something amiss, or potentially amiss, with social solidarity, and make suggestions about what should be done about this. An initial setting-out of the defining features of the film medium might not have come amiss, with leading questions about their impact on opera. An extra 150 pages, say, eight extra chapters, would not have gone amiss. For this reason, a few words about that book may not be amiss. It is a charitable account that does not find anything deeply amiss in his ideas. Indeed, they are enterprises in which it would not be amiss for the ones subject to authority to anticipate the 14. Clearly, however, something has gone amiss. See all examples of amiss 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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