On the surface, it had been easy to mistake for tenderness, but the more I thought about it the more there seemed to be something condescending in it, even meant to humiliate.

表面上，这很容易被误解为亲昵，但我越想，越觉得这是一种高人一等的表现，甚至是有意羞辱我。

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I'm not going to sit around and take the blame for a mistake he made.

我不会闲坐着，为他犯的错误承担责任。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The bank refuses to accept responsibility for the mistake.

银行拒绝为这一错误承担责任。

《牛津词典》

A year ago,he was campaigning for the presidency on the presumption that Iraq was a big mistake and we needed to focus on Afghanistan.

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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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That's the mistake that is important for us to get clear about.

这就错了,这是个我们要避免的错误。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Eventually the conference plumped for - dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot - a signal that is hard to mistake for anything else in the world of morse.

BBC: Titanic

Once it hit the airwaves, it was impossible to mistake it for any other network or media venue.

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She was not the first to mistake me for one of her countrymen.

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