blunder, error, fault, mistake这一组词都有“错误”之意,十分容易在日常学习中搞混。那么我们该如何区分呢?下面由杭州中译翻译公司为您带来易混淆英语词汇辨析。
1. Blunder
A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
(因为无知、疏忽犯下的)大错,愚蠢的错误。
例句:
I think he made a tactical blunder by announcing it so far ahead of time.
我认为他在时机远未成熟时就把这事说了出去是一种失策。
I saw that I had been guilty of a careless blunder.
我意识到自己因疏忽而酿成大错。
2. Error
An error is something you have done which is considered to be incorrect or wrong, or which should not have been done.
指判断、计算或行为上的错误,也指智力或道义上的错误。
例句:
NASA discovered a mathematical error in its calculations...
美国国家航空航天局在它的计算结果中发现了一个数学错误。
MPs attacked lax management and errors of judgment.
议员们抨击管理的松散和判断的失误。
The accident was caused by human error.
这一事故是人为错误造成的。
3. Fault
这个词有三种“错误”的意思,且层次不一样:
1)If a bad or undesirable situation is your fault, you caused it or are responsible for it.
责任;过失;过错
例句:
There was no escaping the fact: it was all his fault...
这全是他的错,这是无法回避的事实。
2)A fault is a mistake in what someone is doing or in what they have done.
错误; 失误
例句:
It is a big fault to think that you can learn how to manage people in business school.
以为在商学院能学会如何管理人是一大错误。
3)A fault in someone or something is a weakness in them or something that is not perfect.
缺点;毛病,多指道德行为的缺点或功能方面的缺陷。
例句:
His manners had always made her blind to his faults.
他的彬彬有礼总是使她对他的缺点视而不见。
...a short delay due to a minor technical fault...
一个技术上的小故障引起的短暂延误
4. Mistake
If you make a mistake, you do something which you did not intend to do, or which produces a result that you do not want.
误会,误解;(粗心、遗忘所导致的)错误。
例句:
I think it's a serious mistake to confuse books with life.
我认为把书本同生活混为一谈是大错特错。
One should not plead inexperience in excuse of his mistake.
一个人不应该借口缺乏经验来为其错误辩解。