Reason 3: And the final reason, time is an imprecise metric.

最后一个原因，时间是一个不精确的度量标准。

When it is hard to describe what you do, it is natural to resort to imprecise terms.

当很难描述你所做的事情时，很自然地就会使用不精确的术语。

However only until can be used with less precise time expressions.

然而，只有 until 可以与不太精确的时间表达一起使用。

For diction, a very important tip is to eliminate imprecise or wordy language.

对于措辞来说，一个非常要的建议是删除不精确或冗长的语言。

But most whites in America proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression for improvement.

但大多数美国白人是从平等就是改进的不那么精确的表达这一前提出发的。

Legal language, in this view, is too important to leave to the imprecisions of ordinary style.

在这种观点中，法律语言太要了，不能被普通文体的不精确影响。

In reality, we still live in an age of empiric, trial-and-error imprecision medicine.

事实上，我们仍然生活在一个经验主义、反复试验的不精确医学时代。

And big uncertainties can make things like the tiny microchip in your new phone less precise and less efficient.

这种极大的不精确会导致像新手机的微型芯片这样的物品来不精确，效果来。

The numbers are imprecise but about a 1,000 people have left France to join the fight and about 200 have returned.

据不太精确的数据显示，有1000人离开法国加入武装斗争，约有200人会返回法国。

Most importantly, they say these methods are not exact. The other tests look for anti bodies and body fluids.

最要的是，他们说这些方法不精确。其他的测试寻找抗体和体液。

Is an exact science that we try to apply as best we can to the inexact world of extinct animals.

是一门精确的科学，我们尽力将其应用于已灭绝动物的不精确世界。

So gauging how tall you'll be based on your mom and dad is a decent indicator, but it's also a bit of an inexact science.

因此，根据你的父母来衡量你会有多高是个不错的指标，但这也是一门不精确的科学。

Attempts have been made to put in context the various influences and sources of modern English vocabulary, although this is necessarily an inexact science.

已经尝试将现代英语词汇的各种影响和来源放在上下文中， 尽管这必然是一门不精确的科学。

In the early 1980s, most printing was done on dot matrix printers, which used printed dots to form shapes, the while legible were blocky and imprecise.

在 20 世纪 80 代早期，大多数打印都是在点阵打印机上完成的，这种打印机使用打印的点来形成形状，而印刷出来的字迹是块状且不精确的。

Instead, a satellite must be pinged, and that information is integrated with other bits of data to trace where you're calling from, a more complex and often inexact process.

相反，必须对卫星发送声脉冲，并将这些信息与其他数据进行整合，才能追踪你的通话位置，这是一个更为复杂且常常不精确的过程。

So you have to conserve the precision through your calculations or else you might end up killing someone with an imprecise dose of insulin or something.

所以你必须通过你的计算来保持精度，否则你可能最终会用不精确剂量的胰岛素或其他东西杀死一个人。

The 30% to 99% range that the researchers posit for the amount of Martian water stored in the ground is admittedly imprecise—and will likely narrow definitively only when humans can collect fresh samples and study them up close.

诚然，研究人员假设的 30% 到 99% 的火星地下水储量范围是不精确的——只有当人类能够收集新鲜样本并对其进行近距离研究时， 这一范围才可能最终缩小。

For a few minutes, in the clear light that is all shadow, fields and woods were outlined with an unreal precision; then the twilight blotted them out, and the little house turned gray and spectral under its wizened apple-branches.

有几分钟， 在全是阴影的清澈光线下，田野和树林以一种不真实的精确度勾勒出轮廓；然后暮色遮住了他们，小房子在枯萎的苹果树枝下变成了灰色和幽灵。