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词汇 what-if
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what if?


idiom
B1
used to ask about something that could happen in the future, especially something bad: 如果(尤指糟糕的情况出现)会怎么样?
What if the bus is late?要是公共汽车晚点了怎么办?
What if you don't pass your exams?要是考试不及格怎么办?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: question words & expressions
amirite
blaze
devil
extent
how about...?idiom
how, what, why, etc. on earth...idiom
in God's/heaven's nameidiom
question tag
trick
what the blazes...?idiom
what's something in aid of?idiom
what's that (all) about (then)?idiom
what's the score?idiom
whenever
where
wherefore
which
why
world
yes

what if | American Dictionary


what if


idiom
used for asking what action to take if a particular thing should happen:
What if our plane is delayed and we can’t make the connection?

what-if | Business English


what-if
noun[ C ]
ukus
a question about what could happen or what could have happened in a particular situation if something was or had been different:
a what-if question/scenarioState agencies have until Sept. 30 to identify their "what-if" budget cut scenarios.

Examples of what if?


what if?
This is useful not only for debugging the application but also for analyzing 'what-if scenarios'.
Under the what-if scenario, it may even be necessary to role back the current state of an object to some previous state.
One manifestation of this last point is the difficulty of determining precisely what-if any-natural language processing is being used in the products on offer.
The system can use a similar process to perform a what-if analysis, as in a spreadsheet.
They propose a what-if approach that allows interactive exploration of the effects of system changes, thus converting complex tuning problems into simpler search problems.
The latter is used to explore how sensitive a design is to changes in parameter values by means of conventional "what-if" analyses.
Because it allows for what-if reasoning, scenario generation is considered an easy tool to facilitate discussions with trustees.
A what-if-query was a hypothetical look downstream of some temporary setting of a variable.
This permits the user to experiment with what-if scenarios: for example, the impact of a supplier ceasing to sell a particular part.
This enables the user to gain confidence in the rules and their modification, and also experiment with what-if scenarios without any programming.
This "what-if " analysis allows us to consider which strategies are good candidates for further applied evaluation.
As a result, project teams could per form what-if analyses on different designs and explore a larger variety of design alternatives to identify the lowest cost design.
Many of these tools target tabular data, allowing to summarize them as charts or graphs, and to build complex what-if analysis scenarios with a few mouse clicks.
It might, for example, be used in the early stages of design, when the engineer wants to get a feel for the search space by asking "what-if " questions.
I have not been prepared to proceed by hypothetical example—either in forecasting the future or by "what-if" versions of history.
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