The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Well, if I go through that, the wavelength of such a photon is going to be so big that I am back to measuring the dimension of the human hair with the yardstick.

好的，如果我做完了这个，那个一光子的的波长将成为,我将回头测量的,用一个尺度测量出人头发的尺寸。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Newton proved his idea by measuring how much gravity force would be needed to keep the moon orbiting the Earth.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

The interest rate has units of time, so I have to specify a time period over which I'm measuring an interest rate.

不同时间段有不同的利率,因此我必须在不同的时间段,细化不同的利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The team is using forty cars and trucks to chase tornadoes, dropping measuring instruments in their paths.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

And the yardstick that we're at least doing our best to apply is one of measuring up the pleasure and subtracting the pain.

我们尽最大努力去应用的标准,是汇总快乐，再减去痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But in measuring distance, one degree shrinks from about one hundred nine kilometers at the equator to nothing at the north and south poles.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

It works by a control mechanism called negative feedback, and the thermostat is measuring the temperature and then sending a signal to a heater somewhere.

是通过一种叫做负反馈的控制机制,探测器测量温度,再把信号传给加热器

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It is also the tallest building when measuring height to tip, and highest occupied floors.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Two ways of measuring how this happened and what difference it made is to realize, to return to what I said earlier, that big state structures involve bureaucracies.

如果要弄懂贵族如何获利,以及贵族获利所引起的改变,我们必须意识到大国必须建立官僚机构,我在前面曾提到过这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But,he says,there is not enough evidence to justify measuring these in everybody.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Well that counts on your ability to accurately assess what people are eating, or what the whole population is eating, and so measuring population intake is incredibly important to dietary recommendations.

要想准确评估人们在吃什么,或者整个,人类在吃什么,这只能依靠你的能力,所以统计总体摄入量,对饮食方面的建议非常重要

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They may have the kids go around measuring doorways,windows, things like that or they are going to use something like money,actual cash."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

We're just getting on to measuring m.

我们想要测量 m

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选