事实上，生产力的概念本身就是时钟的副产品：一旦工作表现与统一的时间单位可以联系起来，工作就永远都不一样了。

Indeed, the very notion of productivity is a by-product of the clock: once one can relate performance to uniform time units, work is never the same.

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我们想用波长除以所有这些，而且为了保持单位统一我们采用米为单位。

We want to divide all of this by our wavelength, and to keep our units the same we'll do meters.

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通过协调的方式经营这些单位，我们可以凝聚创造力地为abc的节目打造一个统一标准的行业平台，这将有助于我们进步。

By operating these units in a coordinated fashion, we'll be able to present the industry with a unified, cohesive creative vision for ABC programming, which will serve us well as we move forward.

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And we want to divide all of that by our wavelength, and to keep our units the same we'll do meters.

我们想用波长除以所有这些，而且保持单位统一我们采用米。

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And,so,instead of having where before you had something like one- hundred tolls you had to pay on the Loire River, if you're transporting some goods, they eliminate all those tolls, they try to create uniform weights and measures, and that'll take one-hundred years before that really works.

相对于从前,诸如你想,通过卢瓦尔河运输货物,你必须支付一百元的过路费,他们取消了所有此类收费,他们尝试建立统一的度量单位,这些想法在一百年之后才得以实现

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