Misplace

(verb.) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; 'misplaced modifiers'.

(verb.) place (something) where one cannot find it again; 'I misplaced my eyeglasses'.

编辑:梅森

• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Missis needn't smoke, said James with a frantic misplaced laugh, and thought the whole matter an excellent joke. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If you have really meant to give me a proof of your good opinion, though ill-timed and misplaced, I feel that I ought to thank you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Yet it never appeared misplaced or forced, being always heartily simple, spontaneous, and genuine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Would that these grateful tears with which I now mourn hope misplaced, and love despised, might flow in peace for ever! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is something to know that my first confidence in you was not all misplaced. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• His reliance on the weather report was not misplaced, since the storm came with full force at noon. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

整理:奥蒂斯