"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

I mean we can, we can sort of understand why OK, the total energy, if we measure it, we measure a process which is not reversible.

例如我们易于理解为什么，当试图测量一个不可逆系统的总能量，给出的或许。

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He introduced the concept of electronegativity which was a measure, therefore, it is quantitative, of the atom's ability to attract electrons within a covalent bond and developed a scale of electronegativity.

他引入了电负性这一概念,一个反映着原子在成共价键时吸引电子的能力的数据标度，因此这是数量上的，在共价电子中,电子原子能吸引电子,并发展为一定规模的电负性。

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And some do it better than others. One measure of success is the five-year survival rate, and the lead author of a new study says that number varied dramatically among the different medical centers doing lung transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

The 20% given to the homework is not a real measure of how important it is.

作业的权重虽然只有20%,但这个数字是无法真正衡量其重要性的

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It also is a good lesson in how difficult it is, and we'll talk about this in a subsequent class, to actually measure what people eat.

同样这能很好的说明,实际评价人们的饮食有多困难,我们下节课会讨论这个话题

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So this is a measure--it's a scaled covariance.

这个指标是相关系数

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So you see what it is--it's a measure of how much x deviates from the mean, but it's squared.

你会看到,这个指标,衡量的是x与平均值的偏离,而且这里有个平方

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We'll come back to this, but beta of the stock is a measure of how much it moves with the market and the alpha of a stock is how much it outperforms the market.

回到原先的话题,beta用以衡量,本公司跟随市场变化的程度,alpha衡量超过市场的表现

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