If detailed planning is a waste of time, measuring to a detailed plan created early in the project is dangerous and often dooms the project to fail.

如果详细地计划是浪费时间，那么在这个项目的早期度量这个详细的计划是很冒险的。这个项目通常注定会失败。

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You'll need such information to use as a baseline for measuring progress.

你需要利用这些信息作为基准来衡量进展情况。

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There's more to it than simply measuring performance.

除了简单地衡量性能之外，它还有其他更多的功能。

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In the study, scientists placed highly sensitive measuring equipment two hundred to two hundred seventy meters under the ocean's surface.

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It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

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Well, if I go through that, the wavelength of such a photon is going to be so big that I am back to measuring the dimension of the human hair with the yardstick.

好的，如果我做完了这个，那个一光子的的波长将成为,我将回头测量的,用一个尺度测量出人头发的尺寸。

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First, he discovered in work with Enterprise Rent-A-Car that a key to measuring loyalty was to give priority to the enthusiastic customers, i.e. those who were delighted.

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Efforts to agree a way of measuring cuts to industrial tariffs also stalled, and were put off to Cancun.

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To assess how Mr Brown is measuring up to his golden rule, economists have to adjust each year's deficit or surplus according to their reading of the economic cycle.

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