The Newsweek list of top U.S. high schools was made this year, as in years past, according to a single metric, the proportion of students taking college-level exams.

和往年一样，《新闻周刊》今年的美国顶尖高中排行榜是根据参加大学水平考试的学生比例这一单一指标编制的。

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Again, when you select a single metric in the metric list, the view will list all of the elements and their values for the selected metric.

此外，当你在这个矩阵列表中挑选一个单独的矩阵时，这个视图将为这个被选择的矩阵列出所有的元素以及它们的值。

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When you select a single metric in the metric list, the distribution graph will show the number of elements that have a particular metric value.

当你要在这个矩阵列表中选择一个单独的矩阵时，这个分布曲线将显示有一个特殊矩阵值元素的数量。

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When we think about the kinds of teachers we hope our children have, we realize that it's impossible to capture everything in a single metric.

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Because interactions as a single metric is only the surface.

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