reckoning
reckoning 英 [ˈrekənɪŋ] 美 [ˈrɛkənɪŋ]
n. 计算；清算；算帐 v. 计算；认为；指望（reckon的ing形式）
名词复数:reckonings
- A reckoning is a calculation or number you estimate. You might say, "By my reckoning, there are now seventeen kids in the bouncy house, which might be a few too many."
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- n. 计算；清算；算帐
- v. 计算；认为；指望（reckon的ing形式）
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1. By all appearances, this is a moment of reckoning for salt.
各种迹象表明，这是对盐进行清算的时刻。
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2. In this environment, whether annual health care costs rise or fall by 1% or even 5% is irrelevant — all we do is move the day of reckoning less than 1 year closer or farther away.
在这种环境下，无论是每年的卫生保健费用上升或下降1％甚至5％都是无关紧要的-我们所能做的便是变动计算天数不到1年或更远一点。
- reckoning (n.) early 14c., "narrative, account," verbal noun from reckon (v.). Meaning "a settling of accounts" is from mid-14c.; that of "calculation" is from late 14c. Compare Dutch rekening "a bill, account, reckoning," Old High German rechenunga, German rechnung, Danish regning "a reckoning, computation." Day of reckoning attested from c. 1600.
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