[scode type="blue"]reckoning[/scode]
音标：/'rek(ə)nɪŋ/
英英释义：
①Some-one's reckoning is a calculation they make about something, especially a calculation that is not very exact.【n.（尤指并不十分准确的）预计，估计，估算】
②If you say that you will have a reckoning with someone, you mean that you will face them at some time in the future and punish them for something they have done.【n.报应;清算】
例句：
①By my reckoning we were seven or eight kilometres from Borj Mechaab.
据我估计我们离梅卡巴堡有七八公里远。
②She knew their truce would not last. There would be a reckoning . There would be another fight.
她早知道他们之间的休战持续不了多长时间。他们之间的账迟早要清算。还将会有一场争斗。
《新闻周刊》一篇题为 Arab Spring Reckoning 也出现了这个表达：
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creep in/into/ back
不知不觉地发生[/scode]
英英释义：
If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it.
例句：
①Insecurity might creep in.
可能会不知不觉地产生不安全感。
②An increasing ratio of mistakes, perhaps induced by tiredness, crept into her game.
可能是由于体力不支，她在比赛中的失误越来越多。
注：creep的过去时是“crept”哦~
Romain Gary的小说 Promise at dawn 也出现了这个表达：
