err
v
(fml 文)
1 [I]
(a) make mistakes; be wrong 犯错误; 出错.
(b) do wrong; sin 做错事; 犯罪.
2 (idm 习语) err on the side of sth show too much of a (usu good) quality 过分表现某品质(通常指好的)
It's better to err on the side of tolerance (ie be too tolerant rather than too severe) when dealing with young offenders. 对待失足的青少年宁可失之过宽(宁过宽而勿过严). to ,err is `human (to for,give di`vine) (saying 谚) it is human nature to sin and make mistakes (and therefore one should be as forgiving as possible) 人孰无过(宽恕为上).
From 1830 onwards in the USA and from about 1870 in Canada, settlers began to move westwards and to take possession of the plains as their own.
美国自1830年起,加拿大从1870年左右起,殖民者开始向西迁移,并把平原据为己有。
Born a free man, he was now in chains.
他生来本是个自由人,如今却戴上了镣铐。
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