The information conveyed by such a model has a tendency to be incomplete, informal, imprecise and, sometimes, inconsistent.

这样的模型所传递的信息，有一种趋势会不完整，不规范，不精确，有时甚至会不稳定。

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"Addiction" provides only a pallid and imprecise analogy for the human relationship to war; parasitism — or even predation — is more to the point.

如果用来比喻人类与战争的关系，“上瘾”显得那么的苍白无力，也有失准确，“寄生”要更加切中要害一些，甚至说成“掠夺”也不为过。

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Paulo: the role of software architecture in general is to be a bridge between the often imprecise and dynamic requirements, and the runnable implementation.

Paulo：软件架构的角色通常来说是为了在不精确且动态变化的需求与可运行的代码实现之间搭起桥梁。

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"The field commander has said 'I need a lot more troops.' And I think it's more than most people, at least in their calculus in the back of their minds, imprecise as that probably was, it was a larger number than they were prepared for,".

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If your weight is excessive then the implication is that the excess is fat and, of course, people's body composition varies enormously and BMI doesn't know anything about that so it's a very imprecise index when applied to individuals.

BBC: BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?

The aim was never precise verification, but rather to use a process of admittedly imprecise inspections to make cheating gradually harder.

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Reformers cannot constantly wave this idea around as though they are the only ones who care about teacher quality, and then plug their ears whenever critics point out that tests are a very crude, very imprecise measure of student achievements and teacher quality.

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