Statistic

(noun.) a datum that can be represented numerically.

校对:菲利斯

• And he said, Here are the stutterings—' 'Statistics,' said Louisa. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• There are to-day (statistics of 1898), 445,064 miles of railway tracks in the world. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It was too clear and simple and too open and shut and many of the statistics he knew were faked by wishful thinking. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Statistics help. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Statistics then is no automatic device for measuring facts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Even the most refined statistics are nothing but an abstraction. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I wonder you don't go in for statistics. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Human statistics are illuminating to those who know humanity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Some idea of the immensity of this industry may be obtained from the import statistics. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Voting, as Gabriel Tarde points out, is our most conspicuous use of statistics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But the moment you begin inquiries into subjects which people prefer to conceal, the weakness of statistics becomes obvious. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Although the electric pen had a large sale and use in its time, the statistics relating to it are not available. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Comment is made on kerosene and its cost, and all kinds of general statistics are jotted down as desirable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I would not trust a hermit's inferences about the statistics of anything. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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