Word of the Day : September 27, 2021
misbegotten
设计（或规划）不周的，拙劣的
adjective miss-bih-GAH-tun
What It Means
Misbegotten means "ill-conceived." It can also mean "having an improper origin."
Misbegotten 的意思是“考虑不周”。 它也可以表示“来源不正确”。
Examples
The celebrity's misbegotten tweet went viral.
这位名人的不周到的推文在网上疯传。
The university's Board of Trustees rejected the misbegotten plan for building a new football stadium.
大学董事会否决了建造新足球场的错误计划。
"… one of those misbegotten oddities that cheats you out of the film you imagine you'll be getting from its opening 10 minutes...." — Robbie Collin, The Daily Telegraph (London), 6 Aug. 2021
Did You Know?
In the beginning, there was begietan, and begietan begot beyeten; then in the days of Middle English beyeten begot begeten. All of the Old English and Middle English ancestors above basically meant the same thing as the modern beget—that is, "to father" or "to produce as an effect or outgrowth." That linguistic line with the prefix mis- (meaning "wrongly" or "badly") brought forth misbegotten.
在起初，有begietan，及它衍生出的beyeten； 然后在中世纪英语 beyeten 衍生的 begeten。 上面所有古英语和中古英语的起源，基本上都与现代 beget 意思相同——即“to father 「父亲」”或“to produce as and effect or outgrowth 「作为结果或产物而产生」”。 这条 linguistic line 带有前缀 mis-（意思是“wrongly「错误地」”或“badly「严重地」”）它带来了misbegotten。
Quiz
Fill in the blanks to complete an adjective meaning "not planned or thought out beforehand": u _ c _ _ c _ l _ _ _ d.