misdirected

英 [ˌmɪsdəˈrektɪd]

美 [ˌmɪsdəˈrektɪd]

v.  误用; 使用不当; 指错方向; 引错路; 误导; 错误指示(陪审团)
misdirect的过去分词和过去式

过去式：misdirected　

BNC.39373 / COCA.30508

柯林斯词典

• VERB 对…使用不当;错用;误用
  If resources or effortsare misdirected, they are used in the wrong way or for the wrong purposes.
  1. Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.
     过去，许多对发展中国家的援助计划没有得到合理实施。
• VERB 将…引错方向;给…指错方向
  If youmisdirectsomeone, you send them in the wrong direction.
  1. He had deliberately misdirected the reporters.
     他故意给记者们指错方向。

双语例句

• Women reject half the praise as being insincere or misdirected or offensive and so need more to get by on.
  而女人则会过滤掉一半的赞美，因为它们或缺乏诚意、或不切要点、或有些冒犯，因而需要更多赞美才能振作起来。
• This is unlikely to have a significant effect and is probably misdirected.
  此举不太可能收到重大效果，而且很可能不会把资金引向正确方向。
• When Eddie Wong, chief executive of Winnington Capital, was giving a recent interview to the Financial Times, he spotted a minor error in his prepared presentation-a misdirected reporting line in the organisational chart of his firm.
  WinningtonCapital首席执行官EddieWong最近接受英国《金融时报》采访时发现，他准备好的讲稿中有个小小的错误&在其公司的组织结构图中，一条标示上下级关系的直线有误。
• Those qualities of leadership could be misdirected.
  那些领导才干可能被用在不该用的方面。
• Misdirected criticism, sarcasm, etc
  不应受到的批评、讽刺等
• It appears that your luggage has been misdirected to a different airport.
  你的行李似乎被送错了地方，到了另一个机场。
• They had misdirected all his letters.
  他们把他所有的信都寄错地方了。
• We are not responsible for misdirected shipment due to the invalid and outdated confirmed address you provided at payment.
  我们不发货到客户的办公地址，朋友和家人的地址，以及未经过支付宝确认的备用地址和新近变更的地址。
• He had deliberately misdirected the reporters.
  他故意给记者们指错方向。
• Government does not fail because it does not measure happiness; it fails when its energies are misdirected on the basis of poor quality information.
  政府不会因为没有衡量幸福而失败，但是，当政府以劣质信息为依据，在资源配置方面失误时，它就会失败。