misdirected

英 [ˌmɪsdəˈrektɪd]

美 [ˌmɪsdəˈrektɪd]

v.  误用; 使用不当; 指错方向; 引错路; 误导; 错误指示(陪审团)
misdirect的过去分词和过去式

过去式：misdirected　

BNC.39373 / COCA.30508

柯林斯词典

• VERB 对…使用不当;错用;误用
  If resources or effortsare misdirected, they are used in the wrong way or for the wrong purposes.
  1. Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.
     过去，许多对发展中国家的援助计划没有得到合理实施。
• VERB 将…引错方向;给…指错方向
  If youmisdirectsomeone, you send them in the wrong direction.
  1. He had deliberately misdirected the reporters.
     他故意给记者们指错方向。

双语例句

• Misdirected energies, abilities, etc.
  使用不当的精力、能力等。
• They had misdirected all his letters.
  他们把他所有的信都寄错地方了。
• In sum, Mr Geithner's remark is true and the issue important, but the timing was unhelpful and the focus on the exchange rate misdirected.
  总之，盖特纳的话没错，他说的问题也是重要的，但他此番言论的时机于事无补，而他对汇率的关注也是误导的。
• Like the prodigal, we need to recognize that we cannot find fulfillment, happiness, safety, or peace in the ego's world, in all the misdirected ways and places we've sought for them.
  浪子一样，我们需要认识到，我们不能得到满足，幸福，安全，和平在自我的世界所有不当的方式和我们为他们谋求地方。
• Their efforts over the past years have been largely misdirected.
  他们过去几年的努力大都白费了。
• Government does not fail because it does not measure happiness; it fails when its energies are misdirected on the basis of poor quality information.
  政府不会因为没有衡量幸福而失败，但是，当政府以劣质信息为依据，在资源配置方面失误时，它就会失败。
• When Eddie Wong, chief executive of Winnington Capital, was giving a recent interview to the Financial Times, he spotted a minor error in his prepared presentation-a misdirected reporting line in the organisational chart of his firm.
  WinningtonCapital首席执行官EddieWong最近接受英国《金融时报》采访时发现，他准备好的讲稿中有个小小的错误&在其公司的组织结构图中，一条标示上下级关系的直线有误。
• This is unlikely to have a significant effect and is probably misdirected.
  此举不太可能收到重大效果，而且很可能不会把资金引向正确方向。
• Anger is just misdirected passion.
  发怒只是情绪的失控。
• Misdirected credit can produce two damaging consequences.
  错误分配的信贷会产生两种严重后果。