I made the mistake of watching a horror movie on television.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

I would recite, whatever, the Articles of Confederation I would rise on my hind legs, quaking in my boots, and I would begin until I made a mistake, whereupon I would be castigated, berated, totally stripped of self-esteem by this monster who would that inflict the same pain on somebody else.

我会背，比如说，联邦条例,我会抬起我的后腿，它在靴子里颤抖，然后开始背，直到犯错，于是，我就会被批评严惩，自尊完全被这个怪物践踏了,他对其他人也会如此加注痛苦。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I must have made a mistake on my project.

我肯定在项目里出什么差错了。

Must 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"There was no consultation and I think they made a grave mistake against the interests of their own people."

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

John Milton has made a mistake. He's made a literary mistake and, as I think all editors know, Spenser does not.

约翰·弥尔顿犯下了一个错误，他犯下了一个文学上的错误，而且我认为所有的编辑都知道，这个错误斯潘塞没犯过。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"But I think the committee made a mistake in giving the prize so soon,frankly, because it somewhat discredits and cheapens the whole notion of the Peace Prize because we haven't yet seen if this Obama approach really is going to make a difference in solving problems.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Maybe I made a big mistake by likening it to an organic chemistry course-- I don't mean to turn you off.

也许将其比作有机化学课,是个错误,我不是故意想倒你们胃口的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So you say well, rather than rushing off and fixing this one bug, let me pull back and ask, bug is this a systematic mistake that I've made throughout the program?

因此我们应该回头想想,这是不是我在整个程序中都，在犯的一个系统性错误，而不是匆匆忙忙的去修复这一个,如果确实是系统性错误的话？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If I do this, which is kind of a mistake we made last time, if deliberately.

如果我故意这样做，这有点像,上次我们犯的一个错误。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, I think that once again, they've made the same mistake the previous case did, that they assigned a dollar value to human life, and once again, they failed to take account things like suffering and emotional losses by the families.

我觉得他们犯了与前面案例,相同的错误，量化了生命的价值，但同样的，他们没有考虑受害者家人承受的,痛苦和精神损失。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You can explain to the waiter that he has made a mistake by using the "I didn't" pattern.

你想跟服务员解释，他弄错了。你就可以使用“I didn't”句型。

I didn't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We're going to see them both capitalized because I've made a newbie mistake here.

我们看到它们两个都是大写的,因为我们犯了一个新的错误。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

bug You put it there. i.e. you made a mistake.

一个错误这种方式来制造了这个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选