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发音：[ɪˈroʊniəs]
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例句：
- Erroneous is an adjective that means something is incorrect or mistaken. It is often used to describe something that contains an error, a mistake, or a false belief.
- Erroneous can also be used to describe a person who is prone to making errors or mistakes. For instance, someone who consistently makes mistakes in their work could be described as erroneous.
- Such alchemistic transformations have led to many erroneous reports, for if a chemist, knowing aldrin has been applied, tests for it he will be deceived into thinking all residues have been dissipated.
- Given that she made the erroneous statements on two separate occasions, her explanations for them raised the possibility that she not only lied, but lied in explaining why she lied.
- Social media users misrepresented the graph to support the erroneous claim that global temperatures are falling rather than rising, meaning global warming is “a hoax.”
- Recently, he decided to formally investigate just how often his fellow researchers in psychology and neuroscience make what he believes are erroneous — or at least premature — causal connections between music and intelligence.
- Last week there were numerous erroneous reports from generally respectable and reliable news sources related to the bombings in Boston and the search for the perpetrators.
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解释：
- Erroneous这个单词做形容词使用，其表示“mistaken or incorrect”这一含义，即“错误的/不正确的”，与incorrect/inaccurate/wrong这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- That’s how science should work: rather than publish something erroneous, most scientists will admit their errors and at least issue a correction, or else retract the paper entirely.（这就是科学应该如何运作：大多数科学家不会发表错误的东西，而是承认他们的错误并至少发布更正，或者完全撤回论文。）
—Science - As these algorithms begin to be applied ever more widely, risks of misinterpretations, erroneous conclusions and wasted scientific effort will spiral.（随着这些算法开始得到更广泛的应用，误解、错误结论和浪费科学努力的风险将会螺旋式上升。）
—Technology - The S.E.C. sought more oversight of Mr. Musk’s communications after he tweeted erroneous information about Tesla more than once, first about taking the company private and later about its production numbers.（美国证监会寻求对马斯克的通信进行更多监督，因为他不止一次在推特上发布了有关特斯拉的错误信息，首先是关于将公司私有化，后来是关于其生产数字。）
—Business - Summarizing in the Harvard Business Review, the researchers noted that at the individual level, bias can lead to foolish investments and erroneous conclusions.（在《哈佛商业评论》中总结，研究人员指出，在个人层面上，偏见会导致愚蠢的投资和错误的结论。）
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