错位 (cuò wèi) — (medicine) to be dislocated; (figurative) to be misaligned, to be in the wrong place
Definition
Literally 'wrongly positioned' — covers both a joint dislocating (bone slips out of place) and things being out of alignment (roles, pages, expectations). A concrete physical mismatch, unlike 古怪 which describes a person's odd personality.
verb
(medicine) to be dislocated(figurative) to be misalignedto be in the wrong place
Examples
- 错位。Tā dǎ lán qiú shí jiān bǎng cuò wèi le.His shoulder was dislocated while playing basketball.
- 错位。Zhè zhǒng jué sè cuò wèi ràng tuán duì hé zuò biàn de hěn kùn nan.This kind of role reversal makes teamwork very difficult.
- 错位，，错位。Wén dàng lǐ de yè mǎ cuò wèi le, xū yào jiǎn chá, yǒu jǐ yè cuò wèi le.The page numbers in the document need checking; a few pages are misplaced.
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