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单词 underestimate
释义
underestimate
(ʌndərestɪmeɪt )
Word forms: underestimates , underestimating , underestimated
1. verb B2
If you underestimate something, you do not realize how large or great it is or will be.
None of us should ever underestimate the degree of difficulty women face in career advancement. [VERB noun]
Never underestimate what you can learn from a group of like-minded people. [VERB wh]
Synonyms: undervalue, understate, underrate, diminish  
underestimation (ʌndərestɪmʃən ) uncountable noun [oft a NOUN]
...a serious underestimation of harm to the environment. [+ of]
2. verb
If you underestimate someone, you do not realize what they are capable of doing.
I think a lot of people still underestimate him. [VERB noun]
The first lesson I learnt as a soldier was never to underestimate the enemy. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: underrate, undervalue, belittle, sell short [informal]  
Collocations:
underestimate a challenge
I don't underestimate the challenge of getting large arts centres restarted.
Times,Sunday Times
No-one should underestimate the challenge that faces this club in surviving the short-term pressures, he said.
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She overestimated its potential and underestimated the challenges.
Times, Sunday Times
While not underestimating the challenges, some participants were decidedly more upbeat about our prospects than you might expect.
Times, Sunday Times
He would also be naive to underestimate the challenges ahead.
Times, Sunday Times
underestimate a risk
He adds that the tests in use do not underestimate the risk.
Times, Sunday Times
A period of rising prices may cause lenders to underestimate the risk of default.
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He said others share the blame, including credit-rating agencies that underestimated the risk.
Times, Sunday Times
However, advisers warn investors not to underestimate the risks involved.
Times, Sunday Times
If anything, the document underestimates the risks, because it says little about the impact of the public's quite understandable actions to protect their own interests.
Times, Sunday Times
underestimate an amount
Don't underestimate the amount of ground space a hedge will take up, either.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't underestimate the amount of water you'll need.
Houston Chronicle
According to a survey, when asked how much scoff we put away we underestimate the amount by close on 1,000 calories a day.
Times, Sunday Times
Tipping buckets also tend to underestimate the amount of rainfall, particularly in snowfall and heavy rainfall events.
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We underestimated the amount of time we needed.
Times, Sunday Times
underestimate the capacity
Of course, one dare not underestimate the capacity of either sister.
Times, Sunday Times
My experience tells me that organizational leaders dramatically underestimate their capacity to self-deceive and turn a blind eye.
Christianity Today
According to financial advisers, investors are prone to either over- or underestimate their capacity for risk.
Times, Sunday Times
But it would be a miscalculation to underestimate his capacity to strike back.
Outlook India
People underestimate the capacity of things to disappear, and do not realize that the ancients almost never built of stone.
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underestimate the degree
Never underestimate the degree to which luck, chance, caprice, misfortune determine the outcome of a game.
Times, Sunday Times
Research shows that we overestimate the extent to which others agree with us, and underestimate the degree to which we are following everyone else.
Times, Sunday Times
I underestimated the degree of difficulty.
Times, Sunday Times
Analysis of the tsunami deposits associated with the 2011 earthquake suggests that the extent of sand deposition in the earlier events underestimated the degree of inundation.
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underestimate the effect
Don't underestimate the effect of gloss and translucency.
Times, Sunday Times
We shouldn't underestimate the effect it can have.
The Sun
People underestimate the effect that sort of thing has across the world.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't underestimate the effect of these revelations on voters.
Times, Sunday Times
Politicians do not underestimate the effect of television on their fortunes.
Outlook India
underestimate the influence of
Having said that, you can't underestimate the influence of the younger royals, who are for ever stomping round on each other's estates in them.
Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, many churches underestimate their influence.
Christianity Today
Do not underestimate the influence of politics.
Times, Sunday Times
And we really shouldn't underestimate the influence of the first of these factors.
Times, Sunday Times
Still, experts don't underestimate that influence.
The Star (South Africa)
underestimate the opposition
But you can never underestimate the opposition.
Times, Sunday Times
But there will still be no underestimating the opposition.
The Sun
The reasons, apart from underestimating the opposition, were the selection of two erratic and unreliable central defenders, no cover in midfield and the absence of a natural leader.
Times, Sunday Times
Could he have fatally underestimated the opposition?
Times, Sunday Times
underestimate the potential of
While difficult cases will always benefit from specialist help, don't underestimate the potential of a do-it-yourself approach.
Times, Sunday Times
We think people underestimate their potential.
Times, Sunday Times
As a nation we consistently underestimate the potential for our companies to become world beaters.
Times, Sunday Times
When he was first elected, we grossly underestimated his potential.
Times, Sunday Times
And would all projects end up being judged simply on a benefitto-cost ratio that risks underestimating the potential for communities to be transformed?
Times,Sunday Times
underestimate the significance of
I don't for a second underestimate the significance of such a call, by the way.
The Sun
Do not underestimate the significance of that.
Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps we are incurious because we continue to underestimate the significance of a media revolution at least as momentous as the coming of print or of the internet.
The Times Literary Supplement
You mustn't underestimate the significance of this.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't underestimate the significance of scoring first with an away side at the wrong end of the table.
Times, Sunday Times
underestimate the size
Using a spoon instead of a fork may make people eat more because they underestimate the size of their meals.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet anyone coming into the job should not underestimate the size of the task or the potential influence of the players he inherits.
Times, Sunday Times
But you can't underestimate the size of the salvage job after that pageant.
The Sun
So you cannot underestimate the size of yesterday's victory - or the shockwaves it sent through the world of sport, never mind just rugby league.
The Sun
Unfortunately, the committee woefully underestimates the size of the underground activity and so its recommendations are frankly laughable.
Times, Sunday Times
underestimate the speed
Most people overestimate their ability and underestimate their speed.
Times, Sunday Times
We cannot underestimate his speed or his power.
Times, Sunday Times
Teams that underestimate their speed may break out of their division in competition.
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Forecasts of the duration of feelings often capture the tendency for emotions to fade over time, but underestimate the speed in which this happens.
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This created a hazardous condition, often leading to high-speed crashes should drivers waiting on the ramp become impatient or underestimate the speed of westbound traffic.
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underestimate the value of
When you have a love decision to make, do not underestimate the value of loyalty.
The Sun
Surprisingly, people tend to underestimate the value of their own lives.
Christianity Today
Many underestimate the value of a good defender who scores goals.
The Sun
You can't underestimate the value of the damaged artefacts.
The Sun
But don't underestimate the value of stability and mutual respect.
The Sun
understimate a cost
The desperation to buy also causes prospective owners to underestimate the cost of the work.
Times, Sunday Times
It seems that the vast major-ity of owners - 90 per cent - underestimate the cost of their four-legged friends.
Times, Sunday Times
The tendency to underestimate the cost again and again suggests managements are guilty of wishful thinking and perhaps too mindful of their bonuses.
Times, Sunday Times
If it's something you want to change, don't underestimate the cost.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't underestimate the cost of this work.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 低估
Japanese: 過小評価する
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