| 词汇 | errant |
| 释义 | errant adjective[ before noun ] formaluk /ˈer.ənt/ us /ˈer.ənt/ behaving wrongly in some way, especially by leaving home: （尤指离家出走而）犯错的，行为不当的，出格的 an errant husband出轨的丈夫 errant children犯错误的孩子 Bad and wrong behaviour act out angel ASB astray at your worstidiom be up to no goodidiom go round gross misconduct hellion immoralist impossible profligate raise hellidiom rakish rakishly rakishness unworthily unworthy villainy while the cat's away, the mice will playidiom errant | American Dictionaryerrant adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈer·ənt/ going in a wrong direction: An errant throw cost them the game. not correctly done or not behaving well: Teachers dislike errant spellings and misused words. Examples of erranterrant Near misses comprised errant productions that differed from the correct target form by a single feature, such as person or tense only. Whether a loudspeaker buried in the dark corner of a café, or a car radio that accompanies one on an errant ride. A number of disagreements are tolerated before change is instigated to a mode that includes the errant note. None the less, the composer's imploring letters to his errant librettist provide an interesting insight into his world of ideas at the time. Maywood employees reported on errant coca sellers or buyers. It hung on a clipboard next to a sink, water logged by errant spray. In that way, errant positives could be caught before they are reported to the human operator. In our particular model, errant trajectories (paths satisfying short-run maximization but very inefficient in the long run) are not competitive equilibrium paths. News announcers and advertising content are frequently attacked in the newspapers for sloppy syntax, errant word choice, and more. As well as dealing with the practical task of maintaining the register, he also plays a crucial role in initiating and organising disciplinary proceedings against errant doctors. Identifying it as a voice that might speak, and speak for him - in this case to his errant lover - goes some way towards bringing it under his control. And indeed the errant wife had already put it about that she would never have come had she realized which of the group she was getting. The mutual rivalries among members of the ruling class ensured that some of the undue demands and deviations of errant officials were corrected by the superior power centre. Ottawa, however, was not to be so easily reconciled with its errant representative. An errant production of la represented a much larger percentage of the substitution errors in masculine singular and feminine plural contexts than in masculine plural contexts. 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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