
adj.不懂?dāng)?shù)學(xué)的;不懂?dāng)?shù)學(xué)和自然科學(xué)的
Being able to answer them on the fly gives you a real advantage over the crowd of innumerate amateurs. 能夠飛速地回答這些問題,將使你獲得一個位于無數(shù)業(yè)余選手人群之上的優(yōu)勢。
However, there is no need to worry.My experience is that every student, no matter how innumerate, is capable of passing a mathematics examination. 但是,作者已經(jīng)把這些事情的大概情節(jié)和分析的理論說清楚了,大家一定也已經(jīng)明白其中的道理了。
About one-sixth are functionally illiterate and one-fifth innumerate, meaning they cannot read and write or deal with numbers as well as an average 11-year-old. 大約有六分之一的實(shí)際上不識字,有五分之一的人計算能力差,也就是說,他們讀寫以及計算能力和一般11歲的孩子差不多。
Companies tend to employ temporary executives to cope with a crisis: the chief executive mucks things up or decamps to a rival, or the chief financial officer turns out to be innumerate. 許多公司也傾向于雇傭臨時主管以應(yīng)對危機(jī):行政長官把事情辦得一團(tuán)糟或叛逃到競爭對手那里,或首席財務(wù)官原來是不識數(shù)的。
the days of the innumerate are numberad. 讓定量思想更廣泛的走進(jìn)考古學(xué)中吧。