These screws are metric.

这些螺丝钉是用公制尺码制造的。

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Around 180,000 metric tons of food aid is required.

大约需要十八万公吨的食品援助。

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We are gradually changing over to a completely metric system.

我们正逐渐换成完全公制。

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The solar-powered irrigation systems produced an average of nearly two metric tons of vegetables per month.

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And so ease of implementation is actually a very compelling -- metric against which to measure-- -- do you mind toning my voice down a bit-- is a very reasonable measure against which to measure the quality of an algorithm, right.

如此简单的实现实际上是一个很牵强的,度量，与之相对的衡量是-,如果你们不介意，我降低点音量-,是一种用来度量算法质量的,合理的方法。

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Studies have been done in the city of New York where you can-- if you live in Manhattan you can actually get a very nice metric of how far apart people live from each other in city blocks. Right?

纽约市就做过这类实验,在纽约-,如果你生活在曼哈顿,你能准确地测量,生活不同街道的人相互距离多远？

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Indonesian papermaker Sinar Mas had entered India and was building a modern 100, 000-metric-ton-a-year factory for high-end coated paper.

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And archrival Albemarle Corp. just opened a 15, 000-metric-ton-a-year bromine plant in Magnolia, Ark. that it claims gives it the low-cost position in the U.S. Prices don't look to improve anytime soon.

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