Like most people, I've long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am.

和大多数人一样，我早就知道人们会用我的职业来评价我，且我的职业是人们用来衡量我有多聪明或多有才华的一个标准。

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The position of the rod is determined by a micrometer screw gauge or spherometer.

杆的位置由千分尺螺丝规或球度计确定。

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As the chart below shows, by this gauge Canada is still 1% below its pre-crisis level and America is 3.5% down.

如下图所示，以此为标准衡量，加拿大仍较危机之前的水平降低1%，而美国下降了3.5%。

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And the sizes in the wire are by gauge.

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There were some twelve to fifteen different widths of railroads in the Northern states alone by the 1850s, and you could go into one town on a gauge, i don't know, three feet wide but on the other side of town it would come out four feet wide.

在五十年代,单就北方州的铁道,就有十二到十五种不同的轨距,你可能在一条三英尺宽的铁道上进镇,但在另一边出镇时,它变成四英尺宽了

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"This conference gives us all an opportunity to reignite its path to progress by working as a team with Haiti at the helm to advance a comprehensive, long-term strategy for Haiti's growth, by coordinating hemispheric and international efforts, by targeting clear goals, by setting benchmarks to gauge our progress, and deploying our diverse skills and resources efficiently and effectively."

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

By this gauge, Asia's economy will probably exceed the combined sum of America's and Europe's within four years.

ECONOMIST: The balance of economic power

But almost all poorer countries look cheap by this gauge, and over the past decade China's real exchange rate has risen.

ECONOMIST: China's economy

At the same time, consumer inflation as measured by the gauge the Fed most closely monitors remains well below its 2 percent target.

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