This is a measure of the number of bits of data that can be stored on a given surface area of the disk.

这是测量可能存储在磁盘一面的数据位数的指标。

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Standards might be unambiguous (a course has been completed) or it might be more subjective (the employee has some measure of expertise in a particular area of learning).

标准不能有丝毫模糊，否则标准就会变得主观(员工也要在某个特殊领域中学到的专长应设定标准)。

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The Gateway City scored in the bottom half of all nine categories we looked at for the Forbes Misery Measure. It was the only metro area to pull off that feat.

在福布斯划定的九大“凄凉”指标中，这座“美国的门户”城市竟有一半指标的得分垫底，是唯一一座“得此殊荣”的大都市。

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Moreover, using a stain in this way meant they could automate the process by attaching a camera to the microscope, taking photographs of all 384 wells, and feeding the images into a computer that had been programmed to measure the area of orange in a well and contrast that with the total area occupied by worms.

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Try to measure the area of a Frisbee disc with wooden blocks and the answer is pretty coarse, but do the same thing with 10 billion grains of sand and you can get pretty damn accurate.

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On April 21st Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University, brought out the 2010 edition of his Houston Area Survey, an annual measure of the civic temperature.

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