Why use story points instead of units of time such as hours?
为什么要使用描述点，而不是小时之类的时间单位？
It would be nice if such units of time were decimal multiples of one another.
这样的时间单位上下级之间要都是以十倍进位就好了。
To understand the units of time we need to investigate the number systems of ancient civilizations.
为了理解时间单位，我们需要研究一下古代文化的数字系统。
The interest rate has units of time, so I have to specify a time period over which I'm measuring an interest rate.
所以，你得为这段时间贴现，除以(1+r)，才是1美元期价的当前值，在这儿我假设的是1年，实际上不必是1年，利率有时间的单位，所以我指定一个时间周期来衡量利率。
Another reason to use story points versus units of time is that the ideal time from one person to another can vary.
使用描述点而不是时间单位的另一个原因是，对于不同的人来说，所需的时间是不同的。
So competing with Amazon or other cloud vendors in small units of processing/storage and small units of time is not likely.
与Amazon和其他云厂商之间在小型处理/存储的竞争不太可能出现。
It has units of time, it represents the price of time, and it is something that fluctuates through time in interesting patterns.
它是时间的单元，代表时间的价格，通过时间来影响利息类型。
The units of time selected are subtracted from the point in time when you click Finish to import the data to give the start time.
所选的时间单位数量是从您点击Finish开始减去导入数据时给出的开始时间。
It has units of time, it represents the price of time, and it is something that fluctuates through time in interesting patterns.
这是一种时间的单位，代表着时间价值，利率以它特殊的模式，随着时间上下摆动动。
Time and frequency are inversely related; that is, smaller units of time (or faster oscillations of light waves) result in larger frequency Numbers.
时间和频率是逆相关的，即：时间单位越小(或光波振荡越快)频率数量越大。
Integer time-outs can be hard to use because it is not obvious what the unit of the time-out is, and it is difficult to translate units of time into the commonly used millisecond.
整数超时可能难以使用，这是因为超时的单位是什么不明显，并且很难将时间单位翻译为常用的毫秒。
Indeed, the very notion of productivity is a by-product of the clock: once one can relate performance to uniform time units, work is never the same.
事实上，生产力的概念本身就是时钟的副产品：一旦工作表现与统一的时间单位可以联系起来，工作就永远都不一样了。
The units are the same as the time base register and the sum of the PURR values for both threads is equal to time base register.
这些单元与基准时间寄存器相同，并且两个线程的PURR值的总和等于基准时间寄存器的值。
For example, many operating systems measure time in units of tens of milliseconds.
例如，许多操作系统以几十毫秒作为时间度量的单位。
The marker's first number represents time in abstract units; the second optional number enclosed in parenthesis is the number of requests that terminate at this point.
标记的第一个数字表示以抽象单位计算的时间；第二个使用圆括号括起的可选数字表示在该点终止的请求数。
Note: When specifying the time in a specific number of units, note that, for consistency, month is defined as 30 days and year is defined as 365 days.
注意：当用具体的单位数量来指定时间时，注意，为了一致性，月定义为30天，年定义为365天。
Full time fire brigade and obligatory fire brigade shall be compensated for fuel, extinguishant and device and equipage used in taking part of fire fighting and rescue for other units.
对参加扑救外单位火灾的专职消防队、义务消防队所损耗的燃料、灭火剂和器材、装备等，依照规定予以补偿。
Tepco said at about 2:46 p.m. local time Units 1, 2 and 3 at its Fukushima Daiichi plant -- three of six at the plant -- shut following the earthquake. All are boiling water reactors.
电力公司表示当地时间下午2点46分，在福冈工厂中的1号，2号，3号单元--六个工厂中三个--在地震后停止了运行，这几个工厂都是沸水反应堆。
The total stock, or "supply," or quantity of money in any area or society at any given time is simply the sum total of all the ounces of gold, or units of money, in that particular society or region.
在一个特定地区特定时间里，货币的存量、“供应量”、或总量简单的说就是这个特定地区或社会里黄金或货币的数量总和。
By following a particular path and adding up the number of time units, you can determine the total time for the completion of an action.
通过特定途径、添加预估时间，你就能决定完成该任务的总时间是多少了。
In the case of the age element, you also have a possible attribute to give the time units.
在使用age元素的情况下，还可以通过一个属性来指定时间单位。
Buffett said Sokol, who had been serving as chairman of Berkshire's MidAmerican Energy, NetJets and Johns Manville units, indicated that he wants to spend more time on philanthropy.
Sokol此前担任伯克希尔旗下MidAmerican Energy、NetJets和JohnsManville units三家公司的董事长，按巴菲特的说法，他是想花更多的时间来做慈善工作。
If you follow some of the time-saving tips later in this article, then 15 units should only require a few additional hours outside of class to complete assignments.
如果你在接下来的小贴士中遵循我提到的一些关于节省时间的方法，这15个单元仅仅就需要你一点点的课余时间来完成你的任务。
At this magnification, the fabric of space-time becomes grainy and is ultimately made of tiny units rather like pixels, but a hundred billion billion times smaller than a proton.
在这种倍率下，时空的结构变成微粒状，最终由像素一样的微小单元构成，这种微小单元比质子还要小万亿亿倍。
You can see that the overall individual request-processing time is 24 time units, which is about 3/4 of the original request duration.
可以看到，单个请求处理时间一般为24 个时间单位，大概是原来的请求持续时间的 3/4。
At the same time, the global market has become so huge that you can occupy a high-end niche and still sell a lot of units.
与此同时，巨大的全球市场使你可以拥有一份称心的高端工作的同时也卖出大量的货品。
At the same time, Japan's nuclear regulator said it was working to connect outside power cables to two of the units at the stricken plant, in hopes of restarting their cooling pumps.
与此同时，日本核监管机构说，正着手将外部电源线连接到受损核电站的两个机组上，希望重新启动它们的冷却泵。
Maybe it's time I got one of those air filter units for our home.
也许是该在家里装上空气过滤器的时候了。
The steps documenting the capabilities and requirements of the ASP.NET units were a bit time-consuming, because the software does not include templates for the .NET domain.
记录 ASP.NET单元功能和需求的步骤，有一点费时，因为软件并没有包含.NET 域的模板。
The project will be performed over a period of one year time, including production of the units, supplying spares, and conducting training.
该项目历时将超过一年，包括设备生产、零部件供应和培训。
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