This is especially true in agriculture, where sustainable development is often taken as the sole measure of progress without a proper appreciation of historical and cultural perspectives.

在农业方面尤其如此；农业的可持续发展往往被视为进步的唯一衡量标准，而没有从历史和文化角度加以适当的评价。

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That is one measure of progress.

这是一个进步的标志。

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The principal measure of progress is working software.

主要的进度度量标准是工作软件。

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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

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

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

An important measure of progress is that business leaders are beginning to feel more confident.

ECONOMIST: Germany's economy

David Albright and Andrea Stricker, of the Institute for Science and International Security, said the latest test could be a measure of progress.

NPR: NKorean Nuclear Test May Be Intelligence Windfall

The transformation occurs, and the huge benefits come, when the management deploys user stories as the primary measure of progress of the work, ahead of outputs.

FORBES: Measuring What Matters: From Outputs to Outcomes: Part 2