"One of the really frustrating things for patients with fibromyalgia is that there's nothing to measure in labs or in X-rays.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

OK, now what I want to do is just describe a little bit of how do you measure all this stuff, right?

好，现在我要做的就是,介绍一下怎样来测量这些东西？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You could run the reaction, take solid iron gaseous oxygen, form iron oxide, measure the heat of formation of it, tabulate it.

你可以进行一个反应,用固态铁和氧气生成氧化铁，测量它的生成热，列成表格。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That measure freed the slaves in the rebel states of the South, though Lincoln's words fell on deaf ears.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

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

Another was a set of special instruments that helped measure the effects of the sun's radiation on the outside of the aircraft.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

These are called population measures because they refer to the whole population of possible outcomes and they measure the probabilities.

这些是用来度量总体的变量,因为他们对应的是总体中所有的结果,度量的是所有事件的概率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Officials say this will make it easier to measure the effects of policies and develop new solutions to help the world's poor.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

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

Helen Murray Free invented self-testing equipment that lets diabetics measure their own blood levels of glucose at home.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

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

Scientists are able to measure the strength and position of earthquakes because there are hundreds of seismic monitoring stations around the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

It's a measure of how much Americans are saving compared to the attractiveness America as a place to invest.

它能够衡量美国储蓄率的高低,以及外国在本国的投资情况。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

They gathered hundreds of sea creatures and water samples to measure the garbage patch's effect on ocean environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

And we develop methods to measure the visually responsive parts of cortex and how the world is mapped onto the brain.

我们开发出一些方法，来测量大脑皮层的视觉反应部分,以及外界的事物如何绘制与大脑当中。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

So,the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

When we measure EKG's, what we're measuring is the activity of all these cells within our heart performing action potentials.

当我们做心电图的时候,我们所测量的是心脏内能发出,动作电位的细胞的活动状态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The difference in the apparent position of the cosmic masers lets astronomers measure their distance from the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

In other words, Foucault is up to something interesting, and probably we should meet him at least halfway to see, to measure, the degree of interest we may have in it.

换言之，福柯在从事很有趣的事业，或许我们至少可以在半途加入他的行列,去看看我们是否也能对此有兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Soil should also be tested for its pH level, a measure of the acid and alkaline balance.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

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

They should also measure what students have learned for example, through some form of examinations or papers.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

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

President Obama had this reaction to Thursday's report on the gross domestic product a wide measure of goods and services in the economy.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

When we do experiments, each group of three has an experimental setup to measure the phenomenon.

当我们做实验的时候，每个三人小组建立实验设备,来测量观察的现象。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Hundreds of indicators are used to measure progress in areas such as education,health,poverty, the environment and trade.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And so ease of implementation is actually a very compelling -- metric against which to measure-- -- do you mind toning my voice down a bit-- is a very reasonable measure against which to measure the quality of an algorithm, right.

如此简单的实现实际上是一个很牵强的,度量，与之相对的衡量是-,如果你们不介意，我降低点音量-,是一种用来度量算法质量的,合理的方法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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