The accident was caused by human error. 这宗事故是人为过失造成的。
There are several errors in the input. 输入中有好几处错误。
Every man is liable to error. 人人都可能犯错误。
error
[ noun ]
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
<noun.act> he made a bad mistake she was quick to point out my errors I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
inadvertent incorrectness
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a misconception resulting from incorrect information
<noun.cognition>
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
<noun.act>
departure from what is ethically acceptable
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(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
<noun.event>
part of a statement that is not correct
<noun.communication> the book was full of errors
Error \Er"ror\, n. [OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr. errare to err. See {Err}.] 1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.]
The rest of his journey, his error by sea. --B. Jonson.
2. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.
3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
His judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired. --Bancroft.
4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. --Ps. xix. 12.
5. (Math.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
6. (Mensuration) (a) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. (b) The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called {residual error}.
7. (Law.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
8. (Baseball) A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.
{Law of error}, or {Law of frequency of error} (Mensuration), the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity.
{Probable error}. (Mensuration) See under {Probable}.
{Writ of error} (Law), an original writ, which lies after judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the judgment of the court. --Bouvier. Burrill.
Syn: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See {Blunder}.
All of the comments came in advance of a Fort Worth Star-Telegram poll, released late Tuesday night, that showed Williams with a 45-41 percent lead in a survey that has a 3 percent margin of error.
The survey of 750 adults, conducted by telephone between April 23 and April 26, has a margin of potential sampling error of plus or minus 4 percent.
And out of necessity: The U.S. can make mistakes and still hope to remove him from power, but a single error on his part could cost him his life.
Prosser blamed human error for the spill.
The current poll of 403 blacks was conducted between March 30 and April 2 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
That poll of Ohio residents showed Dukakis with a nearly 3-1 lead over Jesse Jackson _ 62 percent to 22 percent _ with 16 percent undecided and a 3.5 percent margin of error.
I don't think it's our error, though." Neither the boy nor his family has a copy of his birth certificate.
But it could prove a painful error for investors to suppose that any such thing exists today.
Because of an error in addresses, narcotics officers David Rasche and Richard Young raid his house and wound him in the process.
The computer error couldn't have come at a worse time, the importers say.
Because of an error by the Associated Press, the percentage figure was misstated in an earlier article about Latin American countries struggling with inflation.
I'm willing to stay in the summit but I'll just say flatly that I think it is an error to give in to the Democratic party," he said.
It said Korean Air had ruled out pilot error.
Darcy's mother, a divorced man-hater, learns the error of her immature, pretentious ways through the youngsters.
When I mentioned this error to an MTV publicist, she explained, with some embarrassment, that the people writing the press releases were "very young."
Dhaka newspapers on Monday blamed the accident on human error.
The percentage was misstated in an earlier edition because of a typographical error.
The results were based on a sample of about 60,000 households across the nation and had an error margin of less than one percentage point.
The unidentified trade union leader told the news agency it was a mistake by "senior management." Smith said he did not think the welding error would jeopardize Vickers' bid to win an order to build submarines for the Canadian navy.
Newsweek said Gallup interviewed 753 American adults by telephone Thursday and Friday in a sampling that generally should have a margin of error no larger than 4 percentage points.
Gateway says that this was an error in its press release and the wine withdrawn was in fact Pinot Bianco del Veneto.
"I intend to correct that error, for I fear that I have embarrassed my colleagues."
"In the final analysis, my error was not in what I did with the (protocol) funds, but in thinking I was dealing with people who had honor, integrity and the best interest of the state at heart," Mecham said in the book.
When responses are broken down by age groups or income categories, the margin of error increases as the subgroups get smaller.
The high court said a reconsideration request alleging "material error" can't be appealed to the courts if the ICC rejects it.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington said the notice to the county may have been an error.
Green's list also includes "liberry" instead of "library" _ an error Koch has acknowledged making himself.
"He was one of those newspaper editors who rise up now and again from journalism's trough of mortal error and become the personification of certain values deemed important in the community."
The poll has a margin of error of 2.5 percent.
A 0.1% calibration error can amount to a difference of several thousand barrels in tankers that carry several million barrels of oil when fully loaded.