For example,in his play "The Comedy of Errors" Shakespeare borrows certain structural details from the ancient Roman playwright Plautus.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

That is that you--the errors that people naturally make are often errors of inattention.

人们常常,因注意力不集中而犯错

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but my students are 50% international and there's a lot of errors in the piece,

但我的学生50%都是国际生，论文里会有很多错误，

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David Phillips and Gwendolyn Barker believe there is a clear link between deadly medical errors and the arrival of new residents.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

And people are making errors of this magnitude you can see the problem.

如果人们在重量估测上犯了错,问题便出现了

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Researchers for the RAND Corporation and the University of California at Los Angeles have said that few medical errors cause injury.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Successive approximation, Newton-Raphson was one nice example, but there's a whole class of things that get closer and closer, reducing your errors as you go along.

逐渐逼近,牛顿迭代是一个很好的例子,随着你不断的时行下去,你会不断的离结果越来越近，逐渐地减少误差。

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The two researchers closely studied the records that listed errors involving medicines as the main cause of death.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

If a person has the basic concept down, regardless of numerical errors, if the person has the basic concept down, he or she must get at least five out of ten.

如果一个人有一些基本的概念，不管一些数字上的错误，如果他有基本的概念，至少都能够得到一半的分。

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If resident doctors work shorter hours, the researchers said, errors could happen when one resident takes control of a patient's care from another.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Some of you have actually had the privilege of having these errors already, for different reasons.

你们中有人有出现过,这些错误，因为不同的原因。

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The researchers looked at records that listed "medication errors" as the main cause of death.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

And so, Freud's theory is, as I said before, a theory of everyday life, of decisions, of errors, of falling in love, but it's also a theory of child development.

所以，正如之前所说，弗洛伊德的理论不仅解释了日常生活，决策，失误以及恋爱等现象，还解释了儿童的发展。

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We did make errors, but we had a lot of fun doing it. Being the first ones to do something that gigantic was very exciting."

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

I think that we to motivate a lot of our regulation of financial markets by the kinds of errors that people make.

因为人们犯下了种种错误,所以我们应当促进金融市场的监管

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But medium today is not what medium used to be, and because of that people really make a lot of errors in understanding how much a portion is.

但现在的中包薯条和过去的大小不同,因为这,人们理解什么是每日摄入量时,就犯了很多错误

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Now here's how-- here's how the kind of errors that people make.

这就是人们如何造成的误差

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Okay, so you can see the size of the errors and you can see the problem with dietary assessment, and you can see the problem with how many calories get packed in processed foods.

你们看见了,误差的幅度很大,你们也明白了膳食评估的困难,你们也发现了,加工食品含有大量卡路里的问题

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Now you can begin to see the kinds of errors that this method might produce because people forget, they can't remember exactly how much they ate of things, or they may not be willing to disclose everything they ate.

现在你就可以明白各种误差,是由人们的遗忘而产生的,他们无法准确记得吃了多少东西,他们不会透露所有自己吃的东西

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All right now, now what I'd like you to do is just sort of do a guestimate in your mind of the percentage errors you might have made overall in these estimates, and I'll come back and ask you in a minute.

好了,现在,现在我希望你们,在脑海中估算下你们预测的百分误差,你们可以就总值做一个估算,我会在一分钟后问你们

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Of course that depends on the accuracy of the self- reports that people are making on their own, and as you'll see in just a minute, there are errors in that and some of you may have experienced some of that yourself in keeping the dietary records.

当然这还取决于每个人自己完成的,个体调查的准确性,正如你马上会看到的,这其中有误差,而你们也可能经历过一些,你自己保存膳食记录时的误差

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If you're getting these compilation errors, well, -- when you compile, notice there's a number of key help -- the number of helpful tidbits here.

如果你们得到了这些编译错误，当你编译的时候，注意这里有很多关键帮助-,这里很多帮助信息。

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So how do we go about measuring these things and what sorts of errors are in them, and how accurate are they?

那么我们该如何去评估,其中产生怎样的误差,它们又准确到什么程度

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You have to make those calculations and there are errors in that, but you come away with a population estimate of things like that.

你必须把这些都算进去,因为其中存在误差,但这样你会得出,整体人群摄取量的估算值

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Lots of errors but we've seen this error before.

很多错误，但是这条，我们之前见过。

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You can see there are errors for both of these things.

你们可以看见,两项数据都有误差

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And each time one of these errors occurs, or you get multiple errors that compound each other, then you've got a lot of potential error introduced in these messages.

每当有误差发生,或多重误差复合叠加,然后你所得到的信息,就会包含很多潜在的误差

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Here are some of the errors.

以下是一些误差

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

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