NASA discovered a mathematical error in its calculations.

美国国家航空航天局发现了其计算中的一个数学错误。

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These factors may include the incentive compensation of executives, lack of monitoring by boards of directors, and managerial error in estimating the value of firms targeted for acquisition.

这些因素可能包括高管的激励性薪酬、董事会缺乏监督以及管理层在估计收购目标公司价值时的错误。

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According to Tom, William lost his job not because he was always sick and usually went to work late, but because he made a big error in last month's accounting and the boss was angry with him.

据汤姆说，威廉丢了工作不是因为他经常生病和上班经常迟到，而是因为他在上个月的账目中犯了一个大错误，老板对他很生气。

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"He is at 50 or below in most surveys, and that is mainly because of the economy, which continues to be stubbornly weak, the unemployment rate is very high and still in double-digits, and as a consequence Obama does not have much margin for error,".

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As a consequence, there's a lot of variability and error in these dietary measurements.

结果就是,饮食测评中会有很多变数,和误差

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So for all these reasons there's some error in this kind of thing.

以上种种原因,造成了研究中的误差

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Staples, the office supplies retail giant, made a similar error in classifying its assistant store managers.

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The margin of error in the poll was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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Flanagan had made an error in her November premium payment, shorting the insurer two cents.

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