把事情估得太小
這一族是核心畫面直接用在「事情」上：規模、價格、難度、重要性，你心裡的數字都放得太低。
underrate (amount) · verb · B2
To think or guess that something is smaller, cheaper, easier, or less important than it really is.
低估
核心畫面
You put a number on something in your head before you really know it — and your number lands below the truth. The picture has two levels: the guess sitting low, and reality sitting above it, waiting to surprise you.
你在還沒真正弄清楚之前，先在心裡給一件事「估了一個數」——結果你估的那個數，落在真實的下面。畫面裡有上下兩層：你的猜…更多收起
你在還沒真正弄清楚之前，先在心裡給一件事「估了一個數」——結果你估的那個數，落在真實的下面。畫面裡有上下兩層：你的猜測在低處，真實在高處，等著讓你意外。estimate 是「估算」，前面加 under- 就是「估得偏低」。重點不在你算錯，而在方向——錯得太少、太小、太輕，所以之後現實會比你想的更難、更貴、更強。Two branches
估得太低的那個數字
動詞講的是「估低」這個動作，名詞則是把鏡頭移到那個動作留下的東西——桌上那個偏低的數字本身。
guess too low · noun · B2
A guessed amount or number that is lower than the real one.
低估的數字
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
underestimateverb/ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/
- 1
To estimate too low; to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
- It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.
- 2
To perceive or expect (someone or something) to be less significant or difficult than it actually is.
- I totally underestimated the task.
- My point, therefore, in beginning with what everyone knows are the two main views of Othello (and hence Othello) is not to adjudicate between them, nor to dismiss both, nor to fence-sit, but to suggest that each answers to something important in the play – which also means that each underestimates something important as well.
underestimatenoun/ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.mɪt/
- 1
An estimate that is too low.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。