0 to form a false understanding of the meaning or intention of something that someone does or says -- 误解…的意思（或意图）
It is also noted how measures introduced for one purpose may subsequently be misconstrued or diverted for a completely different purpose.
When children misconstrue metaphors, idioms, and proverbs, they often do so in terms of literal interpretations of their constituent words.
The student did notice the teacher's corrective feedback but either misconstrued it or failed to make sense of it.
The narrower view misconstrued the case's cultural conflicts as racial or ethnic and offered no resolution.
The states that issue the license plate forbid taboo words, or anything anyone might misconstrue as such.
The role of the ecological concept of information, especially in its specificational sense is also misconstrued.
Written by current practitioners of social science, discipline history willfully misconstrued the past in the service of current disciplinary trends.
But ethics experts are not well fitted to do this, and to ask them to do it is to misconstrue their role.
