metric system
常見(jiàn)例句
- Most countries adopt metric system and so his country did.
大多數(shù)國(guó)家採(cǎi)取米制，他的國(guó)家也是這樣。 - For example, we use the metric system of measurement, the US uses a different system of measurement.
我們使用公制計(jì)量法而美國(guó)卻使用一種不同的計(jì)量法。 - But hisown views were more moderately right-wing, extending to a liking for law andorder and a horror of the metric system.
但是他自己卻屬於更溫和的右翼，竝進(jìn)而發(fā)展?fàn)?wèi)喜歡法律與秩序，厭惡公制躰系。 - Unlike the metric system, however, the new standard is not clearly any better than the old.
ECONOMIST: Double standards - Americans today are just as ignorant of the metric system as they were 15 years ago—except pot-smokers.
ECONOMIST: Legalising drugs - For most of us soccer is just an odd affectation of foreigners, like minuscule cars, pink shirts on men and the metric system.
ECONOMIST: Island story 返回 metric system