amiss

a·miss1 /əˈmɪs/ adjectiveadj [not before noun]

PROBLEMif something is amiss, there is a problem 有问题的，不对劲的 SYN wrong

Elsa continued as if nothing was amiss.

埃尔莎若无其事地继续下去。

amiss with/in

There’s something amiss in their relationship.

他们的关系有点不对劲。

Examples from the Corpus

amiss• He had never been afraid or apprehensive before, but now he realised that something was amiss.• I went out on to the roof to have a look and at first I could see nothing amiss.• The workers decided to investigate the carriages, to see what was amiss.• Even the hounds sensed something was amiss and became still, tails pressed between hind legs, watching.• The right brain noted something amiss ... Meanwhile, Yeremi's logical tech-side dreamed.

amiss with/in• There was also a pair of blue-rimmed glasses which Dame Edna Everage wouldn't have looked amiss in.• The film has its rough patches: particularly the implausible speed with which Jeanne catches on to something being amiss with Mika.• Like Toulmin, Taylor believes there is something amiss in our modern disconnection from nature.• She was the incarnation of everything that had gone amiss in Sylvie's own life.• The first step is to notice that something is amiss in the way the child learns and behaves in school.• A bit of patience will not go amiss in this area either: what one sows another reaps.

amiss2 adverbadv British EnglishBrE

1 something would not come/go amiss informal used to say that something would be suitable or useful in a situation 某物很合适[有用]

A cup of tea wouldn’t go amiss.

来杯茶准没错。

Examples from the Corpus

something would not come/go amiss• A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss.• A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss.• A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss. --------------------.• A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss.• Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss.• An apology wouldn't go amiss.• In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.• This remained a most important consideration, but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss.

2 take something amiss to feel upset or offended about something that someone has said or done 对某事生气[见怪]

Don’t take it amiss – I was just teasing.

别见怪，我只是逗你玩呢。

Examples from the Corpus

amiss• Begging you will not take it amiss I shall ever be your dutiful servant.• There was also a pair of blue-rimmed glasses which Dame Edna Everage wouldn't have looked amiss in.

Origin amiss

(1200-1300) miss “mistake, failure”

a·miss1 adjectiveadjamiss2 adverbadv

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