The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

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

Does it support Bentham's idea that all goods, all values can be captured according to a single uniform measure of value?

它是不是支持了边沁的观点,认为所有利益，所有价值都可以,用统一的方式衡量？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But many analysts also say that may be a temporary situation, because they don't expect the measure to be taken up by the full House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

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

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

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

As a matter of fact,there might not even be a benchmark against which you can measure results and you'd think about the venture capital world.

事实上,甚至也许没有一个指标,能用来衡量这些市场的投资结果,想想风险投资领域

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选