(2) Mistakes in observation. (3) Mistakes in generalization. (When the facts are right and the inferences wrong). (4) Mistakes of confusion. (Ambiguity of terms or mistakes by association). (5) Logical fallacies. All five fallacies play important rles in the lawyer's work. We have very frequently to fight natural prejudices.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
So you see, the story of Columbus shows how his life was full of mistakes. In his first voyage he found an island and thought it was the mainland of the Eastern Hemisphere; in his third voyage he discovered the mainland of the New World and thought it only an island off the coast of the Old World. His life was full of mistakes, but those mistakes have turned out to be, for us, glorious successes.英文原著 · 《The True Story of Christopher Columbus》
'We all thought one battle would decide it,' says Richard Baxter, writing about the Civil War. 'But we were all very much mistaken,' sardonically adds Carlyle. Yes; and you will be very much mistaken too if you enter on the war with sin in your soul, in your senses and in your members, with powder and shot for one engagement only. When you enlist here, lay well to heart that it is for life. There is no discharge in this war. There are no ornamental old pensioners here. It is a warfare for eternal life, and nothing will end it but the end of your evil days on earth.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
"Do not lose hope," said the lady, dryly; "I see nothing in your actions tonight to guarantee you further obscurity. Some mistake has been made; I do not know just where. But ~him~ you shall not disturb tonight. The journey has fatigued him so that he has fallen asleep, I think, in his clothes. You talk of stolen money! I do not understand you. Some mistake has been made. I will convince you.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"Not at all. You have been mistaken in me, but I am not mistaken in you. I judge you to be a gentlemanly adventurer, ready to take advantage of any who have money and are foolish enough to be gulled by your tricks. You are welcome to the profit you made out of the theater tickets, also to the little supper to which you have done so much justice. I must request you, now, however, to devote yourself to some one else, as I do not care to meet you again."英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
Adam, New York, 1907), and H. Gross's Archiv I, 306; III, 88; IV, 340; V, 290, 207; IX, 253; IV, 168; VI, 312; VII, 162; XII, 334. Topic 3. MISTAKES. (a) Mistakes of the Senses. Section 98. (1) General Considerations. As sensation is the basis of knowledge, the sensory process must be the basis of the correctness of legal procedure.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
My mistake doesn't have to snowball into our mistake.美剧 · 《Billions》
Agreed. A wonderful, sexy mistake for you and a regular mistake for me.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
And victor was lost at sea. we think of the past as water under the bridge, a current that carries away the mistakes of our youth¡ª the loves we lost... the addictions we gave into... the opportunities we threw away... but sooner or later, reminders drift back into our lives... of the mistakes we ma美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》