I can measure that, because I pull it by one centimeter and I find the acceleration it exerts on a known mass.

我可以测量它了，因为我把它拉到了一厘米，我发现它对一个已知质量施加的加速度。

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Doctors often assess a patient's risk of coronary artery disease by looking at their body mass index - a measure that takes into account someone's weight and height.

医生通常会评估身体质量以测量病人罹患换冠心病的风险，这样的一种测量方法需要参考病人的体重和身高。

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In 1996, WHO set up a global database on obesity and body mass index, the common measure of fatness.

1996年，世界卫生组织建立了一个肥胖和身体质量指数数据库，身体质量指数是衡量肥胖的通行标准。

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Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

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Other is gravitational mass, which is the measure of how much you're attracted to the Earth.

另一个是引力质量,它可以用来衡量地球对物体引力的大小

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He can no more judge the wishes of the great mass of our people by the words of these middlemen than he can measure the ocean's silent depths by the foam upon its waves."

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To assess the contribution from melting ice sheets, scientists try to measure "mass balance, " which is the difference between the annual snow that falls on the permanent ice sheets each year, and the total mass of ice that melts or breaks off the sheets.

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The nutritional condition of all the children in the study was also assessed, in the form of their body-mass indices (BMI), a measure of how much fat their bodies contained.

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The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.

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