| 词汇 | overestimated |
| 释义 | overestimated past simple and past participle ofoverestimate overestimate verb uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈres.tɪ.meɪt/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈes.tə.meɪt/ [ I or T ] to guess an amount that is too high or a size that is too big: I overestimated and there was a lot of food left over after the party. Most of us overestimate how much time and energy we have. According to the survey, agents frequently overestimate the size of rooms. Opposite underestimate(AMOUNT) Compare overvalue C1[ T ] to think that something is better or more important than it really is: 过高估计;过高评价 We cannot overestimate the importance of this work. The benefits of nuclear technology, she said, had been grossly overestimated.她说，核技术的好处被大大高估了。 [ T ] to think that someone is stronger, or more skilful, intelligent, or determined than they really are: They were forced to the conclusion that they had overestimated him. Synonym overrate Opposite underestimate(PERSON) Guesses and assumptions a shot in the darkidiom approximation assumption conjecturally conjecture counterfactual estimate misassumption misestimate misestimation overestimate overestimation proposition purportedly re-estimate rough estimate sneaking speculation speculative suspicion You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Estimating value Analysing and evaluating Misunderstanding Examples of overestimatedoverestimated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It seems that the international observers overestimated their role in reducing the violence. When a mechanical prosthesis is inserted, the size must not be overestimated, as this may lead to compression of the circumflex artery. Although the model predicted low germination percentages at both incubation regimes, simulated data overestimated observed germination values. For individuals aged over 55 years, the extent to which clustering overestimated recent transmission increased with the size of the time period used. Generally overestimated are natural obstacles like degraded soils or low rainfall. However, where this assumption has to be made in the absence of data on wildlife faeces the disease risk may be under or overestimated. We may therefore have overestimated, or underestimated, the effects of urbanization on the incidence of schizophrenia across the life course. It is also apparent from this figure that the model overestimated at high disparities and underestimated at low disparities. For this reason, obtained peak temperatures may be overestimated. Therefore, low survivorship (when overestimated) will not have the dramatic effect it would seem to on its original scale. When the grating was rotated ten degrees clockwise or counterclockwise from sagittal, participants' perceptions of the bar's orientation were overestimated in the opposite direction. Thus, the relevance of non-related cross-reactive antibodies to these antigens is probably overestimated and does not merit clinical significance. Alternatively or as well, this may be an indication that the number of effective samples has been overestimated. Therefore, the inferred number of mutational events will be overestimated. The acquisitional value of recasts in comparison to other forms of corrective feedback might have been overestimated. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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