"Therefore, people who do not measure up to their test of what a proper Democrat or a proper Republican is, are likely to suffer."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

In other words, Foucault is up to something interesting, and probably we should meet him at least halfway to see, to measure, the degree of interest we may have in it.

换言之，福柯在从事很有趣的事业，或许我们至少可以在半途加入他的行列,去看看我们是否也能对此有兴趣。

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You measure your temperature is a little up, you've got a fever, something's wrong, I better find out what that is' because temperature is a very highly controlled variable.

你测出体温偏高是,你就发烧了,身体哪里出问题了,我最好把问题找出来,因为体温是一个严格控制的身体指标

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it's also failed to measure up to Japanese expectations."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

"Toyota has failed to measure up to international standards;

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

UNICEF spokeswoman,Veronique Taveau, says her agency has set up so-called child friendly spaces in the camps as a stopgap measure.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

"Anyone can always come up with a project that you have to kill an animal to measure something,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

But many analysts also say that may be a temporary situation, because they don't expect the measure to be taken up by the full House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Republican Jeb Hensarling says changes agreed to by Democrats and Republicans have improved the measure,adding that it should attract strong bipartisan support when it comes up for a vote in the House.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28