President Obama says the Haitian earthquake relief effort will not be measured in days or weeks, but in months and even years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

The unit for time will be a second, and time will be measured in seconds.

时间的单位是"秒",时间都是按秒来计的

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What Faulkner saw was that there could be no order at all, no idea of doing what is right, in a world that measured success in terms of money.

VOA: special.2010.01.03