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miscalculate

/mis-kal-kyuh-leyt/US // mɪsˈkæl kyəˌleɪt //UK // (ˌmɪsˈkælkjʊˌleɪt) //

失算,失算的情况下,失算的情况,误判

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  1. 1

    mis·cal·cu·lat·ed, mis·cal·cu·lat·ing.

    • : to calculate or judge incorrectly: to miscalculate the time required.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake a mistake
Forms: miscalculated

Examples

  • If we did, we wouldn’t be watching the eeriest of parallels unfold at the end of another miscalculated American war.

  • Yale economics professor Ebonya Washington co-authored a 2018 paper, “The Mommy Effect,” which asserts that women miscalculate the difficulty of balancing work and raising a family when they make decisions about their education.

  • For his part Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu severely miscalculated by failing to recognize that while the Palestinians are down they are not yet out.

  • Richard has lost close friends—military pilots—because they simply miscalculated how far their blades were from the mountainside.

  • They also showed that if researchers only took into account the transmission dynamics of symptomatic individuals, they would likely miscalculate R0.

  • And it might even cause Georgians to miscalculate American military support against Russia and foolishly provoke Moscow.

  • A beginner like you might miscalculate the weight, and think what a terrible smash up we'd have then!

  • Too many of us--the President among the rest, I fear--miscalculate the distance between contingency and desire.

  • It seems to me that those who take such a view quite miscalculate the force of the affection that a man feels for his country.

  • Even the oldest sailors are apt to miscalculate the time likely to elapse before the wind can touch them.

  • I may miscalculate the time and wait until I am too small to climb upon the ring.