那个时候，大多数的计量单位都是来源于实物、手、人体部位（比如“英尺”的英文原意为脚，英里则来源于拉丁语的milia passuum，意为1000步）或者工具（比如桶、杯子）。
Most were drawn from things to hand: the human body (the foot or the mile, which derives from the Latin milia passuum, or 1, 000 paces) and tools (barrels, cups).
他在房子外面调好颜料后两手各提一桶颜料，腋下夹着罩衣，嘴叼刷子，蹒跚着朝房门走去。
He mixed the paint outside andwaddled to the door with a gallon in each hand, the drop cloth under his arm, anda wide brush in his mouth.
她走时，俯着身子，低着头，象个老太婆，水桶的重量把她那两条瘦胳膊拉得又直又僵，桶上的铁提梁也把她那双湿手冻木了。
She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms.
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