热身:读读下面的句子,对照汉语看看你理解的是否到位?
- Two wrongs don't make a right. 以牙还牙是不可取的。
- That clock is wrong. 那个时钟不准。
- She got in with the wrong crowd at university. 她上大学时结交了一群狐朋狗友。
- You've got your skirt on the wrong way round. 你把裙子穿反了。
- You've got it all wrong! 你完全理解错了!
- He has no sense of right and wrong. 他没有什么是非感。
- He has done us a great wrong. 他极大地冤枉了我们。
catch sb on the wrong foot令(某人)措手不及
I hadn't expected the question and it caught me on the wrong foot.
我没有预料到这个问题,它使我措手不及。
get the wrong end of the stick 误解Her friend saw us arrive at the party together and got the wrong end of the stick.
她的朋友看到我们一同到达聚会现场,便产生了误解。
get/fall into the wrong hands落到危险分子(或敌人)手里If this kind of information fell into the wrong hands, we would be in serious trouble.
如果这种消息让对手知道,我们就麻烦大了。
don't get me wrong 别误会Don't get me wrong - I'd love to come, but I'm too busy next week.
别误会——我确实想来,但是我下个礼拜太忙了。
be barking up the wrong tree 找错了原因;用错了方法She thinks it'll solve the problem, but I think she's barking up the wrong tree.
她认为这能解决问题,可我觉得她找错了门。
fall into the wrong hands落入敌手;陷入敌人的控制中There are fears that the weapons might fall into the wrong hands.
有人担心武器可能会落入危险人物手中。
back the wrong horse 下错了赌注;看错人;作了错误的决策In all his years as a book publisher, he rarely backed the wrong horse.
做了多年的出版商,他很少有看走眼的时候。
get on the right/wrong side of sb (讨某人)喜欢/令(某人)厌恶As a teenager, Clare was always getting on the wrong side of her mother.
克莱尔十几岁的时候总是惹母亲生气。
on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc. 看起来比某一年龄小/大She looks to me as if she's on the wrong side of 50.
在我看来,她看上去不只50岁。
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