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单词 misdrive
释义

misdrive

English

Etymology

mis- + drive

Verb

misdrive (third-person singular simple present misdrives, present participle misdriving, simple past misdrove, past participle misdriven)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly.
    • 1857, Thomas Baker, The Steam-engine, Or, The Powers of Flame (page 93)
      Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail,
      And made the dreaded Ursa Major quail;
      Destined but once before her fear to prove,
      When Phaeton the Solar car misdrove.
    • 2009, Armando Iannucci, The Audacity of Hype
      It removes culpability from any distortion and makes anything, no matter how heinous, a complete accident. A drunk driver who crashes a car into someone can now apologise for miscounting his alcohol intake before going on to misdrive into someone he mistook for a road.
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