get the wrong number

I get a fair number of comments to the effect that worries about deflation are all wrong, look at commodity prices.

我这有相当一部分置评基本是：都盯着日用商品价格，怀疑所谓通缩是不是完全错了。

"The most common cause of this is some smart guy trying to duck a debt collector by saying, 'I'm dead,'" he said. "And they get the number wrong."

“最通常的原因可能是某个聪明的家伙想用‘我已经死了’来蒙骗收债的人，”他说，“而一不小心把号码写错”。

The latest devices, though, are so small that doping their channels involves placing just a handful of dopant atoms among the silicon. Get the number wrong, and things will not work properly.

最新的晶体管尺寸非常小，在其通道中掺杂只要往硅中注入少量杂质原子，如果这个量掌握得不好，晶体管的正常运行就会受到影响。