The whole world USES the metric system for measurement, yet here in the United States we still stick to Imperial measurements.

全世界都在用公制计量法，而在美国这我们仍坚持用英制计量法。

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Finally, through the historical scale of measurement, that the Imperial College of decline is the inevitable trend of history.

最后本文通过历史尺度的测量，认为太学的衰落是历史的必然之势。

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I did not know if they used the metric or the imperial system of measurement.

我不知道他们是用公制还是英制单位。

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One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.

ECONOMIST: Exploring Mars