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miscalculation

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

误判,误算,误解,误区

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Definitions

  1. 1

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

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

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Examples

  • Asked whether the poison dose had been miscalculated, he said operatives had “added a bit more” to be sure.

  • If you hadn’t seemed too enamored of him before the breakup, well, perhaps you’d just miscalculated your feelings.

  • Conventional aircraft always take off with a bit of fuel to spare, but they can always make an emergency landing if they miscalculate.

  • They plainly miscalculated both the BA and Marriott fines by a huge margin, and they don’t really deny it.

  • Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.

  • A bigger miscalculation is the off-screen death of Arnold Rothstein.

  • That miscalculation could mean serious trouble in terms of actuarial soundness.

  • What they most have to fear is their own wimpiness –-or miscalculation.

  • We left off with Cyrus making a grave miscalculation as his chief of staff.

  • They had miscalculated their plans for conquest, and from that miscalculation arises our good fortune.

  • He made a miscalculation during the forenoon and received warning; a second offense would mean punishment.

  • Napoleon made a miscalculation, as most critics think, in giving Grouchy so large a force.

  • The cause may have been physical or it may have been moral, but it was probably a political miscalculation.

  • Ignorance of this fact has very frequently led to a miscalculation of the time of confinement.