Someone will make a mistake for certain and take the wrong ones.

一个人总会会犯错误，走错路的。

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Children may eat pills in mistake for sweets.

孩子们会把药片错当成糖果吃的。

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It is a terrible mistake for them to do so.

他们犯了一个严重的错误。

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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.

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I think that's probably like the most common mistake for Koreans.

对韩国人来讲这是个普遍的易错的问题。

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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。

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The server's administrator had made a common mistake for which there was a common fix.

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It is a mistake for Obama to skip the National Council of La Raza Conference.

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And many cenotes attract swallows, which you might -- as I did -- mistake for bats.

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