Having an infinite supply of water and two containers, one for 3 liters and one for 5 liters, how would you measure 4 liters?

你现在有无尽的水和两个容器，一个3公升，一个5公升，怎么用它们量出4升的水？

youdao

Donald Marchand, co-author of Making the Invisible Visible, 4 takes this view further: “You cannot manage what you cannot measure, and you cannot measure what you cannot see.”

唐纳德·马尔尚（《变无形为有形》的合著者）进一步指出：“你不能管理无法衡量的事，你无法衡量看不到的事。”

youdao

This business measure monitors the Purchase Order process processing time and raises an alert if the processing time is greater than five days (Figure 4).

该业务度量标准监控Purchase Order Process处理时间，并且当处理时间大于五天时发出一个警报，请参见图4。

youdao

So what we do is we pick an origin, call it zero, we put some markers there to measure distance, and we say this guy is sitting at 1,2,3,4,5.

我们现在选择一个原点,称其为零点,我们做一些标记来测量距离,这个点在五个单位长度的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Coal volumes slid 8% while intermodal volumes were down 5%, helping the cumulative measure fall 4% in Q4 over the same period a year ago.

FORBES: Falling Volumes Hurt CSX As It Misses Estimates By A Penny

And despite being bigger than pretty much every other competing tablet on the market, the Excite 13 is fairly thin and light for its size, Leavitt said, noting that it will weigh 2.2 pounds and measure 0.4 inches thick.

CNN: SHARE THIS

The Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation was 4.5% in May, and the Retail Prices Index rate was 5.2%.

BBC: Treasury committee: Bank of England's Mervyn King