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单词 reckoning
释义
reckoningreck‧on‧ing /ˈrekənɪŋ/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • By Silva's reckoning, property owners in the city could save $91,000 in bills.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It was not until well into 1917 that the reckoning came.
  • On a conservative reckoning she would have to live at least another fifty years in this bland and dreary universe.
  • This reckoning sometimes takes bitter forms.
  • What happens if there's an assault on me to be taken into the reckoning?
  • When the day of reckoning finally arrived, the truth was found to lie well in the middle ground between these extremes.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 We know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes.
 In the final reckoning, the president failed to achieve his major goals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar, sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather.
· In the final reckoning, truth is restored.· This last trip was a final reckoning.
VERB
· Yet, while Foinavon was indisputably lucky, bravery and skill also came into the reckoning.· Tom Watson came into the reckoning after also carding a 66 in the third round.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • But on the day of reckoning a divided Kurdistan could be a fatally weakened one.
  • If they do that they will merely be putting off the day of reckoning.
  • The idea of training hard for the jump was soon shelved and the day of reckoning drew nearer.
  • The smoke and sound told her the day of reckoning had begun.
  • When the day of reckoning finally arrived, the truth was found to lie well in the middle ground between these extremes.
  • Yet year by year, the day of reckoning grows closer, and nothing is being done.
1[uncountable] calculation that is based on a careful guess rather than on exact knowledgeby somebody’s reckoning By my reckoning, we have 12,000 clients.2[countable usually singular, uncountable] a time when you are judged or punished for your actions, or when they have results that affect you:  We know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes. In the final reckoning, the president failed to achieve his major goals.3in/into/out of the reckoning British English among or not among those who are likely to win or be successful, especially in sport:  He had a knee injury, which put him out of the reckoning. dead reckoning
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