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読み方 あやまる

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1

（＝失錯する）to make a mistake; to make an error; to commit an error; to do wrong; to do amiss

用例

• 人は誤りがち
  Man is liable to error
  “To err is human.”【イディオム・格言的】

• 我誤れり
  I have made a mistake
  I have done wrong
  I have erred.
• 知らざるは誤るに勝る
  “Better untaught than ill-taught.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 計算を誤る
  to make an error in calculation―miscalculate
• 処置を誤る
  to do wrong―mismanage
• 解釈を誤る
  to make an error in interpretation―misinterpret―misconstrue
• 発音を誤る
  to make an error in pronunciation―mispronounce a word
• 綴りを誤る
  to make an error in spelling―spell a word incorrectly―misspell a word
• 読み方を誤る
  to make an error in reading―misread a passage
• 翻訳を誤る
  to make an error in translation―mistranslate a word
• 応用を誤る
  to make an error in application―misapply a rule
• 年代を誤る
  to make an error in dates―misdate an event―commit an anachronism
• 用方を誤る
  to misuse a preposition
• 置きどころを誤る
  to misplace anything
• 判断を誤る
  to make an error in judgment―misjudge
• 方法を誤る
  to proceed in the wrong way―go about it in wrong way
• 方針を誤る
  to take a wrong course
• 方向を誤る
  to err from the right course―fall into error
• 進退を誤る、去就を誤る
  to take a wrong course of action
• 身を誤る、一身を誤る、一生を誤る
  to fall into error―drift into error―go astray―ruin oneself―be ruined
• 私は一生を誤るところをお蔭で助かりました
  You have saved me from ruin.
• 国事を誤る
  to commit a political blunder―commit a political offence
• 外交を誤る
  to make a mistake in diplomacy―commit a diplomatic blunder
• 立場を誤る
  to stand in a false position
• 議論の前提を誤る
  to argue from false premises
• 結論を誤る
  to draw a wrong conclusion
• 人生観を誤る
  to take a wrong view of life
• 見誤る
  to see amiss
• 聞き誤る
  to hear amiss―mishear
• 言い誤る
  to say amiss―missay

2

（＝何を何と誤る）to mistake, take （one thing for another）; to confound （one thing with another）

用例

• 手段と目的を誤る
  to mistake the means for the end

• 金そのものを愛するは手段と目的を誤るのである
  To love money for itself is mistaking the means for the end―confounding the means with the end.
• 本末を誤る
  to mistake the means for the end―take the shadow for the substance―confound the essential with the unessential
• 一歩を誤る
  to take a false step

3

（＝思い違いする）to be mistaken; to be wrong

用例

• 我誤れり
  I am mistaken.

• 君誤れり
  You are wrong.

4

（＝食い違う）to go wrong; to fail; to err

用例

• 事誤れり
  The project has failed
  The matter has gone wrong.

• 理性は誤る事あれども本能は誤る事無し
  Reason may err, but instinct never errs.