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Trad. 不誤
- used in expressions of the form 照[zhao4] + {verb} + 不誤|不误[bu4 wu4], in which 照[zhao4] means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤|照买不误[zhao4 mai3 bu4 wu4], to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)
Trad. 誤點
- not on time
- late (public transport, airlines)
- overdue
- behind schedule
- delayed
Trad. 正誤
- true or false?
- correct or incorrect
- to correct errors (in a document)
Trad. 延誤
- to postpone (with unfortunate consequences); to take too long (to do sth); to miss (a deadline or window of opportunity)
Trad. 貽誤
- to affect adversely
- to delay or hinder
- to waste (an opportunity)
- to mislead
Trad. 失誤
- lapse
- mistake
- to make a mistake
- fault
- service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
Trad. 誤判
- to misjudge
- error of judgment
- incorrect ruling
- miscarriage of justice
Trad. 誤工
- to be late for or absent from work
- to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work
- loss of working time; a holdup
Trad. 誤植
- to write a word incorrectly
- typo
- (medicine) to mistakenly transplant (an infected organ etc)
Trad. 誤繕
- to miswrite (while copying written material); to transcribe incorrectly; to make a clerical error
Trad. 照買不誤
- to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
Trad. 嘗試錯誤
- to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
Trad. 誤上賊船
- lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship
- to embark on a hopeless adventure
Trad. 誤人子弟
- (of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress
- (of media) to propagate errors
- to lead people astray
Trad. 誤入歧途
- to take a wrong step in life (idiom)
- to go astray
Trad. 誤打誤撞
- accidentally
- to act before thinking
Trad. 運行時錯誤
- run-time error (in computing)
Trad. 聰明反被聰明誤
- (idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good
Trad. 磨刀不誤砍柴工
- lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom)
- fig. time invested in preparations is not lost
- a beard well lathered is half shaved