Would elected governments accept the guesstimates of unaccountable technocrats ?

民选政府会认可不靠谱的技术官僚们瞎猜出来的数字吗？

The $ 700 billion figure for the troubled asset relief programme was plucked from the air , the roughest of guesstimates .

为实施问题资产救济方案而动用的7000亿美元化作了空气，成了非常瞎掰的事。

The latest census effort guesstimates roughly 8.7 million species on earth and notes that we know only 1.2 million of them .

最新的普查结果猜测地球上大约有870万物种，并且我们只认识其中的120万种。

Why bother offering up these guesstimates that only help short-term traders make more money , and that expose your share price to greater volatility ?

为什么要费力提供这些只会帮助短线交易者挣更多的钱、却会使公司股价陷入更大震荡的数据呢？

A full-bore nuclear event would render null and void all the standard issue analyses / guesstimates done so far about the economic impact of japan 's tsunami and earthquake ( a short-term blow of ' x ' amount to growth followed by " stimulus " ' y ' from all the reconstruction spending . )

到目前为止，各路专家对地震和海啸给日本带来的经济影响已经做出了很多标准的分析和推测（短期内对日本的经济增长造成数额为X的打击，灾后的重建支出又会带来数额为Y的“刺激”）。