For his mathematical project, he compared two ways to estimate the square root of an integer, a number with no fractional parts.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

So, if you want to estimate how many grammatical sentences under twenty words in English, the answer is, "A lot."

如果你想估计一下,用二十个英文单词,可以组成多少个符合语法的句子,答案会是,"很多"

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How long do you have to be around a person to see him, to estimate how good a lecturer that person is?

你要看一个人多久，才能评估出他讲课有多好？

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The researchers asked parents to estimate the number of cigarettes smoked near each child.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

How hard did you find it to estimate how much you were eating of something?

你觉得估算自己,吃了多少量有多困难

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Because the tunnel economy is clandestine, it's difficult to estimate just how much money is being made.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Minimum estimate 15,000, probably closer to 25,000.

最少估计一万五千,很可能接近两万五

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"They are so complicated that if you tried to estimate how many ways you can make a snowflake, you get a huge number not just billions or trillions, but bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

But what this study found was people were asked to estimate how much food they were consuming and how many calories they were burning through physical activity.

但是这个研究发现,当人们被要求估测,他们吃了多少食物,通过体育运动消耗多少卡路里时

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This week,government scientists raised their estimate of the leak to between thirty-five and sixty thousand barrels of oil each day.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

It's very difficult to estimate portions.

估计"摄入量"是很困难的

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At that rate,officials estimate that more than one hundred thousand people will be able to climb to the top each year.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

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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Phil Sumrall says NASA's estimate to keep the Ares program going forward as planned calls for three billion dollars in additional spending a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

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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This was an estimate of the number of words a six-year-old should be able to read.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

I think the proper estimate is closer to 80,000 or 100,000.

我认为正确的估计约为八万到十万个

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"The lakes are very treacherous. There's over six thousand and some estimate as high as anywhere to ten to twelve thousand shipwrecks on the Great Lakes."

VOA: special.2009.11.11

And the other thing you can do is take self reports like the ones you're doing, hopefully do enough of them, and a random enough sample of the population, that you can extrapolate from that sample to the whole population, and try to estimate what people are eating in that way.

还有其他可以做的,比如大家正在做的这种个体调查,希望能把它做的充分些,如果有充足的随机样本,就可以从样本推断出,整个总体,从而推断哪类人有这样的饮食习惯

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And from that they estimate how much they are going to charge."

VOA: special.2009.12.11

I want to just talk a little bit about his estimate.

关于他的估算我想多说两句。

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He says that in the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists estimate that climate change has caused temperatures to increase by two or three degrees Celsius over the past fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

But all that depends on our ability to estimate dietary fat.

但所有这些都取决于我们,评估膳食脂肪的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"If children were exclusively breastfed for six months, continued to breastfeed up to two years, with appropriate additional food from six months onwards, we could save 1.5 million children under five years of age out the 8.8 million that we estimate to die currently every year."

VOA: special.2010.08.04

You figure that most of those boxes are being eaten by somebody or another, there's some waste that you might calculate in, but there--error gets introduced there trying to estimate that, so you get a number on that.

你的计算中大部分食品,都被人们吃了,浪费的那些也要计算进来,但其中的误差,也要估算出来,最后得出一个数字

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In Vietnam,Laos,and Cambodia conservationists estimate hunting and poaching have reduced tiger numbers to fewer than 30 in each country.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

So Rituparna tries to prove to him his abilities and he says, see that tree there, I can estimate how many leaves there are on that tree by counting leaves on one branch.

所以睿都巴若那就试图证明自己的能力,他说,看那边的树,我只需数一根枝杈上的叶子,就能估算出树上叶子的总数

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Although the legality of office betting pools varies from state to state, experts estimate that billions of dollars are wagered on the tournament.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

If you go to the dining hall you know, the portions-- one person serves themselves this much of a food and another serves themselves another, and then when you go to a restaurant there are variations on how much you get served of things, and so it's very hard to estimate portions for people.

如果你去食堂,摄入量是指,一个人吃了自己的那部分食物,或其他人吃的他们的那一部分,当你去餐厅,每次吃多少是变化的,因此估算每个人的摄入量是很难的

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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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