misread

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mis·read /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ verb (past tensepst and past participlepp misread /-ˈred/) [transitiveT]

1 UNDERSTAND#to make a wrong judgment about a person or situation 對…判斷錯誤 SYN misinterpret

I think she misread the situation.

我想她是錯誤地估計了形勢。

He may be misreading her intentions.

他也許誤解了她的意圖。

2 READto read something incorrectly 讀錯，念錯，看錯

The doctor must have misread the notes.

醫生一定是看錯了記錄。

—misreading noun [countableC, uncountableU]

a misreading of the situation

對局勢的錯誤判斷

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misread• Hobert misread a coverage, thought he was looking at a blitz and threw a killer interception.• More, he had hinted, unless I had misread him, at a connection with the family.• Jody misreads his caution for negativity and is mystified by his attitude.• The intelligence community was criticized for misreading Iraq's intentions.• She was beginning to wonder if she'd misread it - got the time all wrong.• Auditory processing challenges further contributed to his sense of confusion and, at times, to misreading of situations.• It was found that tests had been systematically misread since 1987.• We misread the level of interest in the campaign.• Unfortunately, we misread the situation and lost a lot of sales.• I believe Taylor is misreading the situation yet again by delaying his comeback.

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