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reckoning

/rek-uh-ning/US // ˈrɛk ə nɪŋ //UK // (ˈrɛkənɪŋ) //

计数,计算,计数法,计算法

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : count; computation; calculation.
    • : the settlement of accounts, as between two companies.
    • : a statement of an amount due; bill.
    • : an accounting, as for things received or done.
    • : an appraisal or judgment.
    • : Navigation. dead reckoning.
    • : day of reckoning.

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Examples

  • Here’s everything you need to know about TikTok and moment of reckoning.

  • EVHelp keep Vox free for allMillions turn to Vox each month to understand what’s happening in the news, from the coronavirus crisis to a racial reckoning to what is, quite possibly, the most consequential presidential election of our lifetimes.

  • Amid a national reckoning on race that has consumed the sports world, NBA players are poised to shape the conversation — and perhaps even influence the upcoming election.

  • The coronavirus has put American democracy to the test — and by our reckoning, election officials have made big strides in a short period of time.

  • In a world grappling with a deadly pandemic, global recession and a sudden reckoning with systemic racism, that feels like a long time ago.

  • The day of reckoning has arrived not just in Ferguson, Missouri, but also across America.

  • What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him.

  • They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza.

  • Regardless of how talented or athletic or smart the people are, death seems to be the reckoning that will eventually come.

  • Steinbeck, too, seemed to think that a sort of economic reckoning was close at hand when he invented the Joads in late 1938.

  • Reckoning that Neptune is the outermost planet of the solar system, that system would have a diameter of 5,584 millions of miles.

  • He says that he has sins enough to his account without laying up a reckoning with posterity.

  • This year no less than seventy-six slave-ships have sailed, without reckoning the smugglers in that line.

  • Surely, 'his reckoning hits so hideous' would be a most clumsy expression.

  • With him he spent a couple more days, and then, with an effort he was never to forget, prepared himself for the reckoning.