These are called population measures because they refer to the whole population of possible outcomes and they measure the probabilities.

这些是用来度量总体的变量,因为他们对应的是总体中所有的结果,度量的是所有事件的概率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The text says "harsh labor at mortar and brick," but the text says, "the more they were oppressed, the more they increased and spread out," so Pharaoh resorts to more drastic measures.

文中说，“和泥和造砖的艰苦劳动“,但是文中还说，“越发苦害他们，他们越发多起来，越发蔓延“,因此法老采取了更加残酷的手段。

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These units we call bars or measures and just to finish this off down here we would have three quarter notes of course, in this particular arrangement.

这些单元我们称之为小节,我们来把接下来的写完,这里我们有三个四分音符,当然,按照特定的安排

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

he came into office, passed the stimulus bill, and a raft of other measures because the financial crisis demanded that he do so, and it seemed to have worked.

他上任后，通过了刺激法案，和其他一些列措施,因为金融危机要求,他这样做，似乎这样做也奏效了。

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So, the looking-time measures tend to be more subtle.

所以注视时间法显得更为精确

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Now Susan Mayne, who is a Professor here in the School of Public Health, has done some very interesting work with an electronic device that can be passed over the palm of your hand and measures pigmentation in the hand as a way to assess vegetable intake in people.

苏珊·梅恩,我们公共卫生学院的教授,做了些值得关注的工作,通过电子设备,扫描你的手掌,测算其上色素沉淀,可以得出人们蔬菜的摄入量

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And,so,instead of having where before you had something like one- hundred tolls you had to pay on the Loire River, if you're transporting some goods, they eliminate all those tolls, they try to create uniform weights and measures, and that'll take one-hundred years before that really works.

相对于从前,诸如你想,通过卢瓦尔河运输货物,你必须支付一百元的过路费,他们取消了所有此类收费,他们尝试建立统一的度量单位,这些想法在一百年之后才得以实现

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So to do that we've got to be able to count measures.

为了能作到这一点,我们先要会数小节

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So what we want to do now is to begin to think about counting measures, and we're going to do this by staying with this piece of Louis Armstrong here, and we need to be able to count measures so that we can figure out the syntax of music.

现在我们想做的,是大家开始想一下怎么数小节,我们通过,路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的这段乐曲,来做这个活动,我们需要能够数好小节才能弄清楚,音乐的句法

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