词组 | I stand corrected |
释义 | Idiom I stand corrected I admit that I was wrong.I stand corrected — the company was established in 1927, not 1926, as I had mistakenly thought. stand correctedTo admit that one was incorrect or has been proven wrong. A: "No, John, the wedding was in Nevada, not Utah." B: "Oops, I stand corrected." stand correctedto admit that one has been wrong. I realize that I accused him wrongly. I stand corrected. We appreciate now that our conclusions were wrong. We stand corrected. stand correctedAgree that one was wrong, as in I stand corrected-we did go to Finland in 1985. This idiom was first recorded in John Dryden's The Maiden Queen (1668): "I stand corrected, and myself reprove." |
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