U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected calls for a withdrawal deadline for American troops, saying that would be a "strategic mistake".

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

But in fact, a better word would be mistake.

其实bugs更好的名字应该是错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You could be explaining the mistake, and maybe he got very upset.

你在向他解释你的过错，他可能有点不高兴。

I've already 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"We are not always going to be right. And I do not want everybody disappointed if we make a mistake here or there.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

So the exodus is a paradigm for salvation, but it would be a mistake, I think, to view the Exodus as the climax of the preceding narrative.

出埃及是救赎的范本，但我认为，这也许是个错误，把《出埃及记》当做前面叙述的高潮。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

While critical of mismanagement and other problems uncovered at TV Marti, California Republican Dana Rohrabacher says scrapping the station would be a mistake.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

And, that's a good thing to know because if you come out with an answer that's somewhere near the diameter of the universe and it's supposed to be the diameter of an atom, then you will know that you probably made a mistake.

这是我们需要知道的,因为当你做一道题得到的答案,是宇宙的直径,而正确答案是原子直径时，你能很快发现你的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Jamaica's ambassador to the OAS, Anthony Johnson, says countries may be tempted to erect trade barriers during tough economic times, but this is a mistake.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

And you will be invited to make that mistake on an exam, I'm sure.

我相信在考试中你们有人肯定,会犯这样的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"It had a tremendous impact on children and adults with chronic medical conditions so it would be a mistake to characterize the pandemic as being mild."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

He is warned by the gods through seers,and by men of wisdom saying, don't investigate this question too far; you might be making a mistake.

诸神通过先知向他发出警告,身边的智者也向他谏言,不要太过深究这个问题,否则将铸成大错

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It would really be a mistake, and I am sure the United States would not go in this direction, to give Hamas that authority on its own."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

So this 2 is going to be a common mistake.

所以2将成为一个共同错误。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"But make no mistake," "This cannot be solely America's endeavor.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

I wish there were some easy litmus test that I could just give you so you'd know which of you would be making a mistake taking this class.

我希望能有一种简单的石蕊测试,让我可以直接展示给你们并让你们知道,你们中的谁上这门课是一个错误。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But others say more regulation would be a mistake. The livestock industry and the nation's leading veterinarians' group says the antibiotics are helping to prevent animal disease, which ultimately makes the food supply safer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

That will be a mistake.

那样是不对的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

North Korea's official Rodung Sinmun newspaper described the country as a "proud nuclear power" Monday, and warned it would be a "great mistake for the United States to think it will not be hurt" in the event of military conflict on the peninsula.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

And if you've typed in l when you should've 1 typed a 1, or a 1 when you should've typed an l, you're likely to miss it. If you've made a mistake with upper and lower case. Things like that. So just be very careful looking at that.

如果你本来想打，1，的时候,却输成了，l，或者打，l，的时候输成了，你很可能注意不到这个错误,如果你把大小写弄混了也是一样,要注意这个错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I think what I want to do-- And sometimes that explanation is accurate, but the ones that are interesting here are the ones where you misattribute the cause of the arousal-- you make a mistake and think it's love when it might be due to something else.

我想做的是-,有时你的解释是正确的，但是有趣的解释是,是那些你犯了张冠李戴的错误-,你错误了认为是爱,而实际可能是其他的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If you have a real gas and you write du is Cv dT and your path is not a constant volume path, then you are making a mistake. But for an ideal gas, you can always write this. And this turns out to be very useful to remember.

对于真实气体，如果其变化过程,不是恒容的，du=Cv*dT就不成立，但对于理想气体,这条规则永远成立,这一点非常有用，请记住。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Now again, at this point you're not going to be tempted by the mistake.

在考虑这个问题,不要陷入误区。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I would recite, whatever, the Articles of Confederation I would rise on my hind legs, quaking in my boots, and I would begin until I made a mistake, whereupon I would be castigated, berated, totally stripped of self-esteem by this monster who would that inflict the same pain on somebody else.

我会背，比如说，联邦条例,我会抬起我的后腿，它在靴子里颤抖，然后开始背，直到犯错，于是，我就会被批评严惩，自尊完全被这个怪物践踏了,他对其他人也会如此加注痛苦。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选