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

Now, you know with constant volume, H now it's not going to be delta H that's U straightforward to measure, it's going to be dealt u, all right.

好，现在你们知道在体积恒定的条件下，我们得到的不是Δ,我们直接测量到的是Δ,好，但这基本上也是一样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

An astronomer at Harvard College, Henrietta Leavitt, had discovered that these periods of brightness could be used to measure the star's distance from Earth.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

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

It will be able to measure small amounts of many different gases.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

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

Until the measure becomes law, medical testing on chimpanzees will continue to be a highly divisive, and hotly debated,issue.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

You measure health and you measure a factor like diet, you measure other factors that might be related as well.

你衡量其健康及饮食,还有很多其他可能有关的因素

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But the measure has stalled in the Senate. McKibben believes that,ultimately, a price must be put on carbon.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

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

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 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

The measure then would have to be reconciled with the House-passed legislation before a final bill is sent to President Obama for his signature.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Another experiment would be to mix two chemicals together and put a thermometer in and measure the temperature.

比方说做这样一个试验,将两种化学试剂混合然后测定反应温度

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Democrats and Republicans continue to argue what the true longer-term costs will be, with 10-year costs of the House measure put at more than $1 trillion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

We will be able to actually measure the activity of the human brain.

将来，我们还能够测量人类大脑的活动。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

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

Well, I can, for any given case, measure the pressure, determine the entropy and I'll know what the slope of change will be.

好的，对特定的情况，我可以测量压强，确定熵,并且知道这就是变化的速率。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The White House has declared the unemployment bill an emergency measure, meaning it does not have to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

I don't want to have to deal with heat escaping to the outside environment in a way that might be difficult or complicated to measure or calculate.

我可不想处理跑到,环境中去的热量，那测量或,计算起来会非常麻烦和复杂。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"The measure of success in Afghanistan will be that British forces can come home because Afghan forces are able to deal with the security problems of their country themselves,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

This one turns out to be the heat capacity, and this one turns out to be something that we measure in the Joule-free expansion.

其实，这就是热容，这是焦耳自由膨胀实验中,我们要测量的物理量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But before any bill can become law, the Senate must pass its version, the House and Senate bills must be reconciled and that final measure must be signed by the President.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Now the hope--the hope is that someday there will be biological measure of what people are eating.

现在的希望是,某一天会有一种生物学手段,可用于研究人们吃什么

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A representative who co-sponsored the measure described body scans as a "virtual strip search" that the American public should not be subjected to, and suggested using explosives-sniffing dogs as a less-invasive method of detection.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

They must be looking at some measure of the value of the company and dividing by the number of shares and then that gives them some idea of what the share is worth.

他们必然会对公司的价值有一定衡量,用其除以股票数量,然后大致得出每股价值

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said after meeting the Pakistani envoy that the legislation does not need to be changed but that Qureshi would get written clarifications of terms of the measure he said have been inaccurately characterized by some quarters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

That'll be inside our calorimeter. It's insulated, and there's still a thermometer, so we can measure the temperature.

被放置在量热计里面，它是绝热的，同样有一个温度计，让我们可以测量温度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Well, a cross-sectional study would mean that you'd get a random group of the population and measure them in 1970 and then take another random group five years later and measure them, but it wouldn't be the same people necessarily, it would be different groups of people.

那么,横断面研究就是,1970年你在人群中随意选择一组人,并记录下相关数据,然后,五年后再随意选择一组人记录数据,但这不需要是同一组人,通常是不同的人

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选