英和和英

名詞

trial and error (usually uncountable, plural trials and errors)

1. The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until success is attained.

   Navigating by trial and error may get you there eventually, but using a map is faster.

   • 2018 October 9, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director of La La Land Reunite for First Man’s Spectacular Trip to the Moon”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2020:

     Trial and error was a big part of the process: "We need to fail down here so we don't fail up there," [Neil] Armstrong insists, though even some of the mistakes and malfunctions at ground level cause devastating casualties.

参考

• brute force
• empirical
• suck it and see