The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.

这些死者可能是错认身份的受害者，袭击者可能误以为他们是当兵的。

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Devils Tower, the first national monument in America, could almost be mistaken for the stump of an enormous tree.

魔鬼塔是美国的第一个国家纪念碑，它几乎会被误认为是一个巨大的树桩。

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Paradoxically, the parents of such children encourage this demanding behavior in the mistaken belief that by giving their children everything they can their children will be happy.

矛盾的是，正是这些孩子的父母促成了这种苛求的行为，他们错误地认为，只要给了孩子他们所能给予的一切，孩子就会快乐。

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And what I'm going to be doing, what I'm going to be arguing in this class, is that that set of views is pretty much mistaken from beginning to end.

我准备做什么，我准备在这里和你们辩论，那个观点从一开始到结束都是相当错误的。

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Why should citizens of one state, namely one's own have any moral priority over the citizens of another state when, again, we don't know them and we may well be mistaken in our assumption ? that they are enemies or friends?

为何一国的公民，即为何某人能拥有,凌驾其它城邦公民的道德优势,尤其是我们根本不了解他们,我们可能误将他们,错认为是敌人或朋友？

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Although a loosening of austerity is required, it must not be mistaken for the abandonment of austerity.

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He also said the Rufallah al-Sihati brigade was actually "under the command of -- and committed to -- the national authority, " the case appeared to be one of mistaken identity.

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The sketch, a preparatory drawing for one of the vertical box assemblages that were a frequent theme of Judd's work at the time, could easily be mistaken for a floor plan of the building, a series of stacked volumes one atop the other.

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