Critics want more. Some liberal lawmakers have proposed measures such as letting the government negotiate lower drug prices.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

If you've got four measures and different symbols, you're clearly subdividing the beat but hearing that as the beat.

如果你听出了四个小节并写出不同的符号,你就是将拍子细分了,并把细分后的当作了节拍

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As a consequence, the diary measures have their own sets of flaws that we'll talk about in a minute.

这样的结果是,日记方式有自己的缺陷,我们马上就会谈到

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The island now measures four hundred sixty-one hectares, about the same size as in the eighteen eighties.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

We also need some measure of-- We've been talking here about measures of central tendency only and in finance we need, as well, measures of dispersion, which is how much something varies.

我们也需要其他的指标,目前为止,我们只讨论了集中趋势指标,在金融学中,我们同样需要,离散趋势指标以衡量参数的变化程度

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The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Now Susan Mayne, who is a Professor here in the School of Public Health, has done some very interesting work with an electronic device that can be passed over the palm of your hand and measures pigmentation in the hand as a way to assess vegetable intake in people.

苏珊·梅恩,我们公共卫生学院的教授,做了些值得关注的工作,通过电子设备,扫描你的手掌,测算其上色素沉淀,可以得出人们蔬菜的摄入量

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The scientists examined the data using the same measures as the two thousand three study.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The negotiations involve what are known as port state measures.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Frank Miller, who also served as an arms control expert on the National Security Council describes some of those measures.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

"You've got to look at it as part of a comprehensive package of counterterrorism measures."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Donohue's speech comes as President Obama prepares to deliver his first state of the union address and Congress considers additional stimulus measures to create new jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

But the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is confident their containment measures are working, as they have yet to find more Asian carp above the electric barrier.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

As a major contributor to such loan guarantees, Germany wants stricter measures in place to keep countries from running up such high debts and to regulate the banking and financial sectors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Moon acknowledged that the military approach alone cannot solve the problems of Afghanistan, and called on the international community to help the country institute good governance, and such measures as rural electrification and replacement of opium production with profitable legal crops.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

So far attacks in the U.S. - at least those that are publicly known -- have been thwarted by heightened security awareness and increased counterterrorism measures from the U.S.side, as well as by both bad luck and professional incompetence on the terrorists' part.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05