The idea is to compensate innocent people who do time in error, without rewarding guilty ones whose convictions are quashed on a technicality: the standards for quashing and paying are different.

这个主意旨在弥补因为失误而蒙受不白之冤的无辜的人，而并不包括那些判决撤销的有罪之人，两者区别在于一个法律细节：撤销和赔付的标准有所不同。

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One hotel faced off with a guest who insisted on a penthouse suite to compensate for a reservation error that had been immediately resolved.

一个旅馆不同意给一个客户顶楼套房，这位客户的订房方面出了差错但迅速解决了。

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To compensate for the estimation error, a statistical view can be created and readied for exploitation as follow.

为了弥补这种估计错误，可以创建和准备一个统计视图，并像下面这样加以利用。

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