Soil should also be tested for its pH level, a measure of the acid and alkaline balance.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

And I think it's a measure of the power of Milton's anti-tyrannical language that it can be used against Milton himself.

我认为这种米尔顿的反暴政语言之力量的,衡量标准可用于弥尔顿自己身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So it's a measure of how well we can do to run the refrigerator.

这是衡量,我们运行制冷机的一个量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Why should the amount by which you're attracted to the Earth be also a measure of how much you hate acceleration?

为什么物体受地球引力的大小,恰好能衡量物体加速的难易程度呢

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But consumer confidence a measure of trust in the economy fell unexpectedly this month.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

It's a measure of how much Americans are saving compared to the attractiveness America as a place to invest.

它能够衡量美国储蓄率的高低,以及外国在本国的投资情况。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"The alliance is 60 years old and it is a measure of our vitality that we are still welcoming new members."

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

So you can think about how these 2 things combined are going to be electronegativity, which is a measure of how much an atom wants to pull electron density away from another atom.

因此你可以想象出,这两样性质合起来就是电负性，也就是一个度量，关于一个原子,有多希望把另一个原子的电子密度拉过来的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Pakistan's military has achieved a measure of success against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley and taken control of its main town,Mingora.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Just to refresh our memories, we looked at the average valence electron energy as a measure of reactivity.

重新回顾一下我们记忆，我们看了平均价电子能,能用来测量反应性。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In an off-year election seen by some political pundits as a measure of support for President Barak Obama's popularity after his first year in office, the opposition Republicans have picked up the state house in two formerly Democratic states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The earnings is a measure of the value of the company and typically they've been valued at something like fifteen times earnings.

收益是对公司价值的衡量,一般是以,15乘以收益的形式体现的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In Bou Saifi, a village south of Baghdad, gunmen killed at least 24 people Friday in what authorities say was an attack by al-Qaida members against families of men linked to Awakening Councils, a pro-U.S.Sunni force that helped Iraq fight extremists and regain a measure of relative calm in recent years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But at the same time,Admiral Mullen, who is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed confidence that with a solid Afghan partner, an increase in U.S.forces can bring a measure of security and stability to Afghanistan within a few years, as the 2007/2008 "surge" helped provide an opportunity for Iraq to move forward in a more secure environment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

If the baby really sees it as different, the baby will look longer, and you could use that as a measure of what babies find different.

如果婴儿认为此物与之前出现物体不同,婴儿的注视时间会变长,你可以将注视时间变长,视为婴儿发现物体间区别的一种标志

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We looked at a very high resolution picture of the brain, where we can actually measure what's called cortical thickness.

VOA: special.2011.07.29

Now if you've gone to the doctor, often they'll measure your triaglyceride level as a measure of how healthy your liver is and how healthy your diet is.

现在如果你去看医生,他们通常会测你的甘油三酯水平,以此作为你的肝健康和饮食健康的指标

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Another was a set of special instruments that helped measure the effects of the sun's radiation on the outside of the aircraft.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Because Ford included a measure of the value of life.

因为福特计算了生命的价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

And then we're going to turn to the question of efficiency. How do we measure efficiency of algorithms? Which is going to be a really important thing that we want to deal with, and we'll start it today, it's undoubtedly going to take us a couple more lectures to finish it off.

然后我们会回头继续讨论效率问题,我们如何计算算法的效率？,我们处理这些问题的时候,最重要的事情是什么？,我们今天要去讨论这个问题，毫无疑问我们要用,挺多节课来学习这个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

President Obama had this reaction to Thursday's report on the gross domestic product a wide measure of goods and services in the economy.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

And so ease of implementation is actually a very compelling -- metric against which to measure-- -- do you mind toning my voice down a bit-- is a very reasonable measure against which to measure the quality of an algorithm, right.

如此简单的实现实际上是一个很牵强的,度量，与之相对的衡量是-,如果你们不介意，我降低点音量-,是一种用来度量算法质量的,合理的方法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A measure known as the Dream Act would put these children of undocumented immigrants on a path toward citizenship instead of possible expulsion.

VOA: special.2010.09.30

For example, the hall prove to measure the magnetic field of a crack caring club.

比如，他们准备测量,某个地方的磁场。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Yet such a measure could violate the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Our opponent understands our ironies, and there is, it seems to me, a perfect kind of symbiosis, ironically enough, between political opponents precisely maybe in the measure to which their ironies are mutually intelligible.

政敌同样也了解我们的讽刺，我认为，这其中有一种共生关系，足够讽刺的是,敌对的两派之间,恰恰好能相互理解对方的讽刺。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Covariance is a measure of how much two variables move together.

协方差衡量的是两个变量一起变动的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选