A market research company reported an early estimate of fifteen and a half billion dollars in sales of all games content in the United States last year.

VOA: special.2011.02.23

Every country computes an estimate of how much is spent each year on consumption by the people who live in the country.

每个国家估算出,生活在该国国内居民,每年的消费额。

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Again, I don't want to make too much of my estimates because different people would estimate these things in different ways, but that's the theory.

再说一次，我不想太过强调我的估算,因为不同的人,会用不同的方法估算这些数据，但这只是个理论。

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Scientists estimate that between 950,000 and 2.5 million barrels of oil have already spilled in the Gulf .

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

In this particular study, we took thirty people who enter in a weight loss clinic and we had them estimate the calories in these sort of common foods.

在这个实验中,三十人进入了一家减肥专科门诊,让他们估计一些普通食物中的卡路里

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So we actually had the foods on a plate or in a bowl, or in a glass, and we had--we asked them to estimate how much of the food there was, how many ounces they were seeing, and then how many calories there were.

食物被摆在盘子,碗,玻璃杯中,然后让他们估计食物总量,有多少盎司,多少卡路里

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