Error

(noun.) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed.

(noun.) departure from what is ethically acceptable.

(noun.) a misconception resulting from incorrect information.

(noun.) part of a statement that is not correct; 'the book was full of errors'.

(noun.) (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer.

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• Was there error somewhere? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Polemarchus and I may have been guilty of a little mistake in the argument, but I can assure you that the error was not intentional. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The utilitarian principle is valuable as a corrective of error, and shows to us a side of ethics which is apt to be neglected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But Isaac soon convinced him of his error. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I committed one error in trusting myself to such a blindfold calculation of chances as this. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What then can we look for from this confusion of groundless and extraordinary opinions but error and falshood? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This moderation towards those who are in error is one of the most characteristic features of Socrates in the Republic. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Or, assuming it to be false, could the conclusion which associated Sir Percival with her guilt have been founded in some inconceivable error? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In historic practice the error has cut two ways. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But now, let us reason with the unjust, who is not intentionally in error. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Somewhat allied to this curious faculty is another no less remarkable, and that is, the ability to point out instantly an error in a mass of reported experimental results. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• On the next day Laura knew that his death had released her, and that the error and the calamity of her life lay buried in his tomb. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This, notwithstanding it was a fundamental error, was pardoned, and excited an expression of loud applause from the gallery auditors. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• My dear girl was right in saying that he only pursued his errors the more desperately for her sake. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Human nature is very subject to errors of this kind; and perhaps this nation as much as any other. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He wrote to Leverrier in reference to the errors of the radius vector and received a satisfactory and sufficiently compliant reply. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• That such material will control the pupil's operations so as to prevent errors is true. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Or if it be possible to imagine, that such errors are the sources of all immorality? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• If any copies were handed about, they must have been in manuscript, and each copy must have been liable to errors and deliberate falsification. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This explanation will serve to rectify mistakes which may already have been made, and to prevent future errors. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I understand and share the wise consideration with which you regard his errors. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is a book to which all intelligent readers come sooner or later, abounding as it does in illuminating errors and Boswellian charm. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In an unguarded moment, I chanced to say that, of the two errors; I considered falsehood worse than an occasional lapse in church-attendance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Many errors might creep in by such a system. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The ability to detect errors quickly in a series of experiments is one of the things that has enabled Edison to accomplish such a vast amount of work as the records show. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I knew from her own lips that she regarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owing him a great debt she ardently desired to pay. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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