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spotty

2023年02月27日 | 英単語
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davisの "Rebooting AI" を読んでいます。

WolframAlpha, introduced in 2009 to much hype as "the world's first computational knowledge engine," is no better. It has enormaous built-in databases of all kinds of scientific, technological, mathematical, census, and sociological information, and a collection of techniques for using this information to answer question, but its capacity to put all that information together is stll spotty.

確か "spotty" には(まだらな)斑点の意味がありましたね。 上の文では 'capacity ' について形容しているので斑点ではありませんね。 他の意味を辞書で調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: not complete; good in some parts, but not in others: a spotty knowledge of Spanish; It was a spotty performance.
・Collins Dictionary: Something that is spotty does not stay the same but is sometimes good and sometimes bad.: His attendance record was spotty.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: bad in some parts: Sales have picked up a little but they're still spotty.

むらがあるのは斑点がまばらなと共通点がありました。
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