Word · CEFR A1 · Frequency #919
miss
小姐
A title used before a woman's surname or full name, traditionally for an unmarried woman or girl.
用于未婚女子的姓氏或姓名前
- 1.
A failure to physically hit.
物理上未击中
- 2.
An unmarried woman; a girl.
未婚女性;女孩
- 3.
A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.
用于未婚女性的称呼;18世纪中叶前主要用于女孩,此后也用于成年女性,不论婚姻状况。
- 4.
a young woman
年轻女子
- 5.
A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
未能获得或完成某事;未能成功
- 6.
A kept woman; a mistress.
被供养的女人;情妇
- 7.
A form of address for a female teacher or a waitress.
对女教师或女服务员的称呼。
- 8.
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
未击中(或未遇到、未找到等)
- 9.
An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
避免的行为(常与give连用)
- 10.
In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
三张牌游戏中,桌上发的一手额外牌,可以替换玩家手中的牌
- 11.
Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, or certain other types of contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents, or the category of contest.
用于选美比赛或某些其他比赛中女性获胜者的头衔,前缀她所代表的国家、地区或比赛类别。
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a form of address for an unmarried woman
对未婚女子的称呼
- 13.
The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
缓存中未找到项目的情况,因此需要显式加载
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A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
犯规击球未击中目标球,且裁判认为球员未尽力合法击球;除罚分外,可要求重打
未婚女子;姑娘;年轻女子;未击中;未达到;失败;回避;避开;小姐;老师;…小姐(选美等比赛冠军称号)
In use
The archer had only one miss in the entire competition.
The company's quarterly earnings miss disappointed investors.
After several misses, the golfer finally made a birdie.
give [something] a miss
常用于口语,表示决定不去做某事或不参加某活动。
I think I'll give the gym a miss tonight.
我想今晚不去健身房了。
be a miss
作名词指未击中或未达到预期目标,常与be连用。
The second shot was a miss, but the first one hit the target.
第二枪没打中,但第一枪命中了靶子。
Miss [surname]
用于称呼未婚女性,尤其是女教师;注意Miss首字母大写。
Miss Chen teaches us English.
Connections
Collocations
- near miss
- 险些发生的事故;侥幸脱险
- The two planes had a near miss over the city.两架飞机在城市上空险些相撞。
- give something a miss
- 决定不做某事;避开
- I'm tired, so I'll give the gym a miss today.我累了,所以今天不去健身房了。
- Miss Smith
- 史密斯小姐(对未婚女性的称呼)
- Miss Smith is our English teacher.史密斯小姐是我们的英语老师。
- Miss Universe
- 环球小姐(选美比赛冠军头衔)
- She won the Miss Universe title in 2022.她赢得了2022年环球小姐的桂冠。
- hit or miss
- 时好时坏;碰运气
- The weather here is hit or miss.这里的天气好坏不定。
- a lucky miss
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想:Miss 首字母大写是小姐称呼,小写 miss 是未击中;把“小姐 Miss”想象成没接住球,就记住了两个意思。
Context & Register
语域:mixed 常见场景:school、formal letters、customer service Miss 作名词时多指“小姐/未婚女子”,也用作对女性的礼貌称呼。正式程度随场合变化:后接姓氏(如 Miss Smith)较正式,常见于学校、书信或服务场合;单独称呼女老师或女顾客时较日常。具体用法需看搭配和语境,不能一概而论。
Grammar Note
作称呼时置于姓氏前,不加冠词;作普通名词时可数。
Pronunciation & Spelling
kiss、hiss、bliss、this、amiss 都与 Miss (/mɪs/) 押韵,末尾都是 /ɪs/。注意 mist 是形近词,发 /mɪst/,末尾的 /t/ 使其不押韵。另外,Miss 中双写 s 发 /s/,不是 /ʃ/(如 mission)。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇,值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4,建议结合例句记忆,而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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