Ayrton also seemed to perceive a sort of cleverness in the sermon. There was nothing in it that was calculated to shock even the most susceptible hearer. Indeed, it seemed to Mr. Ayrton that there was a good deal in it that was calculated to soothe the nerves of those who had been shocked by the book. He said something to this effect to his daughter as they walked homeward. He was rather anxious to find out what chance George Holland had of being restored to his daughter's favor.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
He released her hands and sprang up. He had meant just that, but he had not had the courage, or the meanness, or both, to admit boldly his own secret wish. She had calculated on this--had calculated well. ``Mildred!'' he cried in a shocked voice. ``YOU so lacking in delicacy as to say such a thing!''英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》
But he had not calculated on any inherent weakness in himself,-- had not calculated on Providence. A dish tumbled and with it fell into chaos the fair structure of his dreams. With the cry of "Grizel! Grizel!" he gave up his secret, his hopes and his life. There was no retrieval possible after that. The star of Abner Fairbrother had set.英文原著 · 《The Woman in the Alcove》
When the dust had cleared away, the men at the log on the outside of the clearing could not see Luther. They ran to the spot, and found him lying on the ground with his chest crushed in. His fearful eyes had not rightly calculated the distance from the stump to the top of the pine, nor rightly weighed the power of the massed branches, and so, standing spell-bound, watching the descending trunk as one might watch his Nemesis, the rebound came and left him lying worse than dead.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
He had before suggested, as is supposed, to Ptolemy Euergetes, to make him the two great copper armillae, or circles for determining the equinox, which stood for centuries in "that which is called the Square Porch"--probably somewhere in the Museum. By these he had calculated the obliquity of the ecliptic, closely enough to serve for a thousand years after. That was one work done. But what had the Syene shadows to do with that? Syene must be under that ecliptic. On the edge of it. In short, just under the tropic. Now he had ascertained exactly the latitude of one place on the earth's surface.英文原著 · 《Alexandria and her Schools》
I began to remember that nature was a woman. My companion, in a rosier temper, listened with great satisfaction to my Jeremiads, and ironically concurred. He instanced, as a cognate matter, the action of the tides, 'which,' said he, 'was altogether designed for the confusion of canoeists, except in so far as it was calculated to minister to a barren vanity on the part of the moon.'英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
But you need to understand it is not a gamble, it is a calculated risk.美剧 · 《Billions》
The essence of our job is to overcome that and take calculated risks.美剧 · 《Billions》
Wendy and I made a calculated risk to work with him because there was real long-term upside.美剧 · 《Billions》
From going from the very calculated, planned way of behaving, from going from the very calculated, planned way of behaving,演讲 · 《Robots with soul ~ Guy Hoffman》