Calculate

(verb.) make a mathematical calculation or computation.

(verb.) judge to be probable.

(verb.) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.

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• By means of an apparatus called the siren, it is possible to calculate the number of vibrations producing any given musical note, such, for example, as middle C on the piano. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• At the place where I planned to do this, I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• So many wheels to count and consider and calculate! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• To study this he made an instrument called the dynamometer, which enabled him to calculate the resistance of friction to which carriages would be exposed on railways. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The effects of which movement it is impossible to calculate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She would not calculate, she would not compare. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I thought your good nature might--' 'I thought you knew,' she interrupted, with a smile, 'that my good nature is not to be calculated upon? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Is it because we are calculated to walk? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Her constitution is both sound and elastic;--better calculated to endure variations of climate than many more robust. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Baldwin, a construction engineer, living in the United States, began to work on calculating machines in 1870. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She was aware of Mademoiselle standing near, like a little French beetle, observant and calculating. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Here was a new stunner--I had been calculating on four or five thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• No practical business man would erect a turbine or paddle wheel without calculating in advance the value of his water power. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He commenced to construct an automatic calculating machine, which he called a difference engine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I am calculating on the exposure. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was early in the seventeenth century that Napier, a native of Naples, invented the first actual mechanical means of calculating. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Thus the activities of the astronomer vary with the stars at which he gazes or about which he calculates. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Calculates to do the best for 'em I can. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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