Many of them believed that the first World War in Europe had been a terrible mistake.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

But that is a terrible mistake because we should know that sculptresses are very rare; very few people have the job of a sculptress or sculptor, so it's a mistake.

但这是严重错误,我们都很清楚,雕刻家是很罕见的职业,只有很少人会是雕刻家,所以这是错的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It would either say something like -I'm not going to do the words that they would have come up with, but they would have said, yeah that's a good place to go or don't do that, that's a terrible mistake.

这答案不外乎两种,我不会说他们的那种语言,但是他们的意思大概是,那是个好去处,或者别做那事儿,那是个糟糕的错误

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It seemed as if someone had made a terrible mistake.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Pope made a terrible mistake.

VOA: special.2009.09.24