So,the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I don't want to have to deal with heat escaping to the outside environment in a way that might be difficult or complicated to measure or calculate.

我可不想处理跑到,环境中去的热量，那测量或,计算起来会非常麻烦和复杂。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Some organizations use the TOEIC to measure progress in English training programs and as a placement test.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Another experiment would be to mix two chemicals together and put a thermometer in and measure the temperature.

比方说做这样一个试验,将两种化学试剂混合然后测定反应温度

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

President Obama had this reaction to Thursday's report on the gross domestic product a wide measure of goods and services in the economy.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

You'll find out, if you go on to some of the other classes in course 6, there are a lot of different ways that you can measure this.

你会发现,我们会有很多不同的方式，去计算它,最常见的方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

First, to measure what a whole population eats, how in the world could you know that?

首先,去测量人群总体吃什么,到底该如何做

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In California, voters passed a measure to replace their primary election system, starting next year.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

- But if you measure all of those things-- Let's do it in a different order.

如果你衡量这些品质-,让我们换种顺序。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But consumer confidence a measure of trust in the economy fell unexpectedly this month.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

And, in particular, he introduced a quantitative measure.

他还通过实验给出了数值标准。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

We'll adapt the convention that we'll measure angle in a radian.

我们要适应它,以后都用弧度来表示角的大小

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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

Our opponent understands our ironies, and there is, it seems to me, a perfect kind of symbiosis, ironically enough, between political opponents precisely maybe in the measure to which their ironies are mutually intelligible.

政敌同样也了解我们的讽刺，我认为，这其中有一种共生关系，足够讽刺的是,敌对的两派之间,恰恰好能相互理解对方的讽刺。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Pakistan's military has achieved a measure of success against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley and taken control of its main town,Mingora.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

What if you could take just a pump that's capable of continuously administering insulin at various rates and connect it to a sensor that's able to continuously measure the sugar level in your blood?

如果我们安装一个泵,能够持续的动态控制胰岛素输出,并把这个泵连接到一个,持续监测体内血糖水平的变化的传感器上

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Democrats in the House of Representatives announced they had reached a compromise on just how to pay for the costly reform measure.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

And for any of the other compounds. So in other words, by defining that reference state, we can then figure out or measure heats of formation of a vast number of compounds.

对吧？对于任何其他的,化合物也是一样，所以换句话讲，定义了这个参考状态,我们就能算出或测量许多。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But the measure has stalled in the Senate. McKibben believes that,ultimately, a price must be put on carbon.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Now let's change the pressure and temperature and sweep through a whole range of pressures and temperatures and measure the volume in every one of them.

然后改变气压和温度,并且让气压和温度,取便所有可能的数值,测量相应的体积。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Like a measure in the House, the $871 billion Senate bill would create new private insurance marketplaces,or exchanges, to expand choices for Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

It also is a good lesson in how difficult it is, and we'll talk about this in a subsequent class, to actually measure what people eat.

同样这能很好的说明,实际评价人们的饮食有多困难,我们下节课会讨论这个话题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Now if you're not in a kitchen it's going to be hard to measure a cup, or an ounce, or things like that so you'll have to be estimating.

如果你不在厨房,很难用杯,盎司,或其他单位来度量,因此需要自己来估计

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

At present,doctors cannot measure the amount of serotonin in a living baby's brain.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

It's tabulated in books, and this we can measure p in the experiment. Delta p here is the change in pressure from the left side to the right side, and we can put a thermometer, measure the temperature before the experiment and measure the temperature after the experiment.

这列在书上，这个量我们在,实验中也可以测量，在这里Δ,是从左边到右边的压强变化，我们可以放一个温度计，去测量实验前的温度,再去测量试验后的温度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But because in many cases we can reasonably either model or measure equations of state, collect data for a material for its temperature, pressure, volume relations, then in fact if we can relate all these quantities to those then in fact we really can calculate essentially all of the thermodynamics. For the material.

但是因为在很多情况下,我们能够合理的给出状态方程的模型,或者通过收集一个物质的，温度，压强和体积之间的关系,来测量其状态方程，所以实际上我们可以给出压强等物理量,和热力学势之间的关系,并计算出所有的热力学势，对于给定的物质。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选