When bad weather prevented navigators from seeing the sun,moon or stars, they had to use a method called "dead reckoning" to find the ship's position.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; So if you are killed by a beast or a human, there will have to be a reckoning, an accounting.

你们的血;,无论你是被人或者兽所杀，我必将讨他的罪。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

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If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

However,when a ship was near land, dead reckoning became extremely dangerous.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Fambul Tok director,John Caulker, believes that Sierra Leone needs a reconciliation model that relies on community dialogue and collective reckoning.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06