misplaced
- adj. 不合时宜的；（情感）寄托错的；放错位置的；暂时丢失的
- v. 乱放（而找不到），暂时丢失；错放（misplace 的过去式和过去分词）
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
misplaced /ˌmɪsˈpleɪst/
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ADJ If you describe a feeling or action as misplaced, you are critical of it because you think it is inappropriate, or directed towards the wrong thing or person. (感情或行动) 不适当的; 定位不当的 [表不满]
例：A telling sign of misplaced priorities is the concentration on health, not environmental issues.
首要问题定位不当的一个显著标志就是专注于健康而非环境问题。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Somehow the suitcase with my clothes was misplaced.
不知道怎么的，我忘记把装衣服的手提箱放哪儿了。
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Jaffe's observation may be misplaced but not completely lost.
杰斐的观察也许用错了地方，但并不是完全没有意义。
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Certain "misplaced" volcanoes far from plate edges result from a second, independent mechanism that cools the deep interior of Earth.
某些远离板块边缘的“错位”火山是由另一种独立机制造成的，这种机制能够使地球内部深处的温度降低。
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I should have read it a lecture or two ago when I started talking about immortality, but I misplaced it.
我应该在一两节课之前读它,即在我开始谈论永生的时候，但是我当时把它放错地方了。
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He was a Yale graduate, class of 1914 and unfortunately I seem to have misplaced-- Well, I can generate a little bit of it here.
他是耶鲁1914级的毕业生,真不巧,我找不到乐谱了,好吧,我试着弹一段吧
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