• n. 誤差；錯(cuò)誤；過失

來自err, 犯錯(cuò)誤。

error

error: see err

error (n.)

also, through 18c., errour; c. 1300, "a deviation from truth made through ignorance or inadvertence, a mistake," also "offense against morality or justice; transgression, wrong-doing, sin;" from Old French error "mistake, flaw, defect, heresy," from Latin errorem (nominative error) "a wandering, straying, a going astray; meandering; doubt, uncertainty;" also "a figurative going astray, mistake," from errare "to wander" (see err). From early 14c. as "state of believing or practicing what is false or heretical; false opinion or belief, heresy." From late 14c. as "deviation from what is normal; abnormality, aberration." From 1726 as "difference between observed value and true value."

Words for "error" in most Indo-European languages originally meant "wander, go astray" (for example Greek plane in the New Testament, Old Norse villa, Lithuanian klaida, Sanskrit bhrama-), but Irish has dearmad "error," from dermat "a forgetting."

1. The plane was shot down in error by a NATO missile.

一枚北約的導(dǎo)彈誤將那架飛機(jī)擊落。

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2. The hospital blamed the mix-up on a clerical error.

醫(yī)院方面將這一混亂歸咎于一處筆誤。

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3. You have to allow for a certain amount of error.

你必須將一定量的誤差考慮在內(nèi)。

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4. Every error is captured, every decision picked to pieces.

每個(gè)錯(cuò)誤都會被抓住，每個(gè)決定都會被罵得一無是處。

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5. The government has said it was an inadvertent error.

政府聲稱那是因疏忽造成的過失。

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