Overestimate

(noun.) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high.

(noun.) an appraisal that is too high.

(verb.) make too high an estimate of; 'He overestimated his own powers'.

戴夫校对

• Those revolutionists who see the misery of the country as a deliberate and fiendish plot overestimate the bad will, the intelligence and the singleness of purpose in the ruling classes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I do not overestimate it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But the truth is that we overestimate enormously the importance of nominations, campaigns, and office-holding. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare, but to me this grove seemed very beautiful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But James's services cannot be overestimated: if he did not lay even the foundations of a science, he did lay some of the foundations for research. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is possible that the influence of a return to classic Greek pagan literature in bringing about this changed mind has been overestimated. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She could not admit at once that she might have overestimated Wildeve, for to perceive his mediocrity now was to admit her own great folly heretofore. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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