7after six years of drought, measuring sticks are useless at the Ziglab Dam in Jordan, built to catch water flowing west into the Jordan River for irrigation.

6年的干旱后，约旦Ziglab大坝的水位量尺显然失去了意义，该水库的建成是为了截留向西流入约旦河的水以用于灌溉。

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The measuring sticks for the rankings are nutrition, daily calories, drop-out rates and both short- and long-term weight loss scores from published clinical studies.

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But the dollar and the euro are merely measuring sticks.

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