In some cases, says data scientist Karthik Ram, it may be difficult for junior researchers to embrace openness when senior colleagues—many of whom head selection and promotion committees—might ridicule what they may view as misplaced energies.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADJ-GRADED
(感情、行动)不适当的,不得体的,搞错对象的
If you describe a feeling or action as misplaced, you are critical of it because you think it is inappropriate, or directed towards the wrong thing or person.