首页英语词典measuremeasure的意思

measure

英 ['meʒə] 美['mɛʒɚ]

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近义词assess estimate compare size rate grade rank appraise

n. 测量；措施；程度；尺寸
vt. 测量；估量；权衡
vi. 测量；估量

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词态变化

复数: measures;第三人称单数: measures;过去式: measured;过去分词: measured;现在分词: measuring;

中文词源

measure 测量，尺度，方法

来自古法语mesurer,测量，来自拉丁语mensurare,测量，检测，来自PIE*me,测量，词源同meter,commensurate.

英英释意

1. the act or process of measuring;: "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"

2. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated;: "they set the measure for all subsequent work"

3. how much there is of something that you can quantify

4. any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal;: "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"

5. a statute in draft before it becomes law;: "they held a public hearing on the bill"

6. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

7. musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;: "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"

8. measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

英文词源

measure: measure: [13] The distant ancestor of English measure was the Indo-European base *ma-, *me- ‘measure’. This has generated a wide range of often unexpected English progeny, including meal ‘repast’, month, and moon. Measure itself comes from an extension of the base, *mat-, *met-, from which was derived the Latin verb mētīrī ‘measure’.

Its past participial stem mēnsformed the basis of the noun mēnsūra ‘measure’, which passed into English via Old French mesure as measure. From the same Latin stem come commensurate [17], dimension [14], and immense [15] (literally ‘unmeasurable’); and other related forms that go back to the base *mat-, *met- (or *med-) include mate ‘friend’, meat, meditate, meet ‘suitable’, mete, mode, moderate, modest, and modify.
=> commensurate, dimension, immense, mate, meal, meat, meditate, meet, mete, metre, mode, moderate, modest, month, moon
measure (v.): c. 1300, "to deal out by measure," from Old French mesurer "measure; moderate, curb" (12c.), from Late Latin mensurare "to measure," from Latin mensura "a measuring, a measurement; thing to measure by," from mensus, past participle of metiri "to measure," from PIE *me- (2) "to measure" (see meter (n.2)).

Replaced Old English cognate mæð "measure." Meaning "to ascertain spatial dimensions of" is mid-14c. To measure up "have the necessary abilities" is 1910, American English. Related: Measured; measuring.
measure (n.): c. 1200, "moderation, temperance, abstemiousness;" c. 1300, "instrument for measuring," from Old French mesure "limit, boundary; quantity, dimension; occasion, time" (12c.), from Latin mensura "measure" (see measure (v.)). Meaning "size or quantity as ascertained by measuring" is from early 14c. Meaning "action of measuring; standard measure of quantity; system of measuring; appointed or alloted amount of anything" is late 14c. Also from late 14c. are senses "proper proportion, balance." Sense of "that to which something is compared to determine its quantity" is from 1570s. Meaning "rhythmic pattern in music" is late 14c.; from mid-15c. in poetry, c. 1500 in dance. Meaning "treatment 'meted out' to someone" is from 1590s; that of "plan or course of action intended to obtain some goal" is from 1690s; sense of "legislative enactment" is from 1759. Phrase for good measure (late 14c.) is literally "ample in quantity, in goods sold by measure."

同义词辨析

standard, criterion, measure, gauge

这些名词均含"标准"之意。

standard：指公认为决定事物质量或人的品质的准则或原则。

criterion：较正式用词，指判断、批评事物的标准，但不一定制成了规章。

measure与standard基本同义，但多用于比喻，指衡量某事物的质量准则。

gauge：专指测量物体大小、厚度、直径等的标准规格。

考试真题

Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success.

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 倾向) and absorption.

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

Under the law in Massachusetts, tobacco companies have to measure the nicotine content of every type of cigarette and report the results.

The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

Different measures should be taken to protect one's home from burglary in addition to the wireless security system.

After taking appropriate measures to contain the RF interference to our test lab, we tested the attack out for ourselves, and were able to verify that it's possible with the right equipment.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

Many policy measures to control obesity（肥胖症）assume that people consciously and rationally choose what and how much they eat and therefore focus on providing information and more access to healthier foods," note the two researchers.

The other measures include restricting portion sizes, taxing and prohibiting special price deals for junk foods, and placing warning labels on the products

What do the Rand researchers think of many of the policy measures to control obesity?

Borrowing ideas from alcohol control measures

In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students'elf-esteem

Measures to create job opportunities.

Thus, time and time's relativity are measurable by any hourglass, alarm clock, or an atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second.

Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.

What measure did the Graben Gore Restaurant take to stop stealing?

Earlier this morning, the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results, saying consumers deserved to get the speeds they were promised.

In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne- Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities — from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga — by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under "clock time" vs "task time"

Philadelphia's new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council vote.

While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

It helps advertisers to measure the click-through rates.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures.

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like acting before thinking and persistence in reaching goals.

Since tobacco is one of the biggest causes of premature death in the UK, a measure that tames the habit even by a fraction is worth trying.

The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in — and measuring us against - our peer group.

"Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet," wrote Tony Schwartz in New York times.

Researchers used ACT scores as a measure of intellectual aptitude.

She's using CT scans to measure muscle size and fat, and comparing seniors on a high-protein diet with those on regular diets.

The Jones-Klenow measure can also assess an economy's performance over time.

The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use standardized metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.

To measure the effects of Internet-based distractions during class, researchers, evaluated 500 students taking an introductory psychology class at michigan State University.

While thinking about the question, we came across a recently published article by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow, which proposes an interesting new measure of economic welfare.

In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms.

Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the stroop test one way of measuring attention.

It found many youngsters now measure their status by how much public approval they get online, often through "likes".

Some immigrant advocates worry that as hard financial times make it more difficult for natives to keep jobs, such measures will become more a vehicle for intolerance than integration.

The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.

The label tells you what each axis measures.

The measure to reduce risks from social media.

There are measures to punish road offences.

They have reduced pollution through effective measures.

This nature of data makes the antitrust measures of the past less useful.

This smart keyboard precisely measures the cadence with which one types and the pressure fingers apply to each key.

Tononi's team measured the size of these connections, or synapses, in the brains of 12 mice.

It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.

The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep – and bone-showing.

Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives.

This is a lesson that rich countries can learn : When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country’s success, the world looks very different.

Some relatively poor European countries have seen huge improvements across measures including civil society , income equality and the environment.

So, what Kennedy was referring to was that while GDP has been the most common method for measuring the economic activity of nations , as a measure , it is no longer enough.

Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.

Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile.”

It measures things that do not matter and misses things that do.

Enhanced security measures since then, combined with a rise in airline travel due to the improving Chicago’s O’Hare International.

By most recent measures, the UK’s GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

Across the 163 countries measured, the UK is one of the poorest performers in ensuring that economic growth is translated into meaningful improvements for its citizens.

Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $286 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant's papers.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate-where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

In signing the measure, California Governor Jerry Brown admitted that the law, which expressly classifies people on the basis of sex, is probably unconstitutional.

So what Kennedy was referring to was that while GDP has been the most common method for measuring the economic activity of nations, as a measure, it is no longer enough.

The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in California, which last year became the first state to require gender quotas for private companies.

The digital services tax now awaits the signature of President Emmanuel Macron, who has expressed support for the measure, and it could go into effect within the next few weeks.

This is a lesson that rich countries can learn: When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country's success, the world looks very different.

What the study doesn't measure is whether people are still doing work when they're at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.

词组搭配

measure up

To be the equal of.

相当于，等同于

To have the necessary qualifications

合格，符合标准

a candidate who just didn't measure up.
不符合标准的候选人

get (或take或have)the measure of

assess or have assessed the character, nature, or abilities of (someone or something)

评估…的特性（或本质、能力）

he's got her measure—she won't fool him.
他已经摸到了她的个性——她不会欺骗他。

in — measure

to the degree specified

以（指明的）程度

his rapid promotion was due in some measure to his friendship with the king.
他的快速提升一定程度上同他与国王的友情有关。

measure one's length

(dated)(of a person) fall flat on the ground

(旧)摔倒，跌倒

measure of capacity

a standard unit of volume used for containers, liquids, and substances such as grain

标准容积

beyond measure

In excess.

过度

Without limit.

无限度，无可估量

for good measure

In addition to the required amount.

另外：附加于要求的数量

in a measure 或 in some measure

To a degree

在某种程度上

The new law was in a measure harmful.
新的法律在某种程度上说是有害的

实用场景例句

A ship's speed is measured in knots.: 船速以节测量。

a device that measures the level of radiation in the atmosphere: 测量大气层中辐射级的仪器

He's gone to be measured for a new suit.: 他去量尺寸做新衣服去了。

measuring equipment/instruments: 测量装备 / 仪器

A dipstick is used to measure how much oil is left in an engine.: 量油尺是用来探查引擎中的剩余油量的。

The main bedroom measures 12ft by 15ft.: 主卧室宽12英尺，长15英尺。

The pond measures about 2 metres across.: 这个池塘宽约2米。

It is difficult to measure the success of the campaign at this stage.: 在现阶段还难以估量这场运动的成败。

I continued to measure his progress against the charts in the doctor's office...: 我继续比照医生办公室里的图表来判断他病情的发展。

A grammar school's success was measured in terms of the number of pupils who got into university...: 一所文法学校成功与否是以考上大学的学生人数为衡量依据的。

Measure the length and width of the gap...: 测量一下这条缝隙的长与宽。

He measured the speed at which ultrasonic waves travel along the bone.: 他测出了超声波穿过骨头的速度。

The house is more than twenty metres long and measures six metres in width...: 这座房子长20多米，宽6米。

This hand-decorated plate measures 30cm across...: 这只手工绘制的盘子直径为30厘米。

With the exception of Juan, each attained a measure of success...: 除了胡安之外，每个人都获得了相当大的成功。

The colonies were claiming a larger measure of self-government.: 殖民地正要求获得更大程度上的自治。

It is a measure of their plight that few of them have anywhere to go to...: 他们几乎全都无处可归，看得出他们是陷入了困境。

That is a measure of how bad things have become at the bank.: 那简直就是银行里糟糕局面的写照。

The government warned that police would take tougher measures to contain the trouble...: 政府警告说，警方将采取更为强硬的措施来遏制动乱。

He said stern measures would be taken against the killers...: 他说将会采取严厉措施惩罚凶手。

He poured himself another generous measure of malt.: 他又为自己倒了满满一大杯麦芽威士忌。

...a pub measure of spirits.: 一杯烈酒

Mankind's knowledge of the universe has increased beyond measure...: 人类对于宇宙的了解已经大为增加。

She irritated him beyond measure.: 她让他大为光火。

I repeated my question for good measure...: 另外，我重复了我的问题。

For good measure, a few details of hotels were included.: 除此之外还包括对宾馆的一些详细介绍。

The governments of the industrialized world had failed to get the measure of the crisis...: 工业化国家的政府没能意识到这次危机的严重程度。

Has he taken the measure of us and concluded that we're not willing to risk a life?...: 他有没有掂掂我们的分量，知道我们并不愿冒生命危险？

Power is in some measure an act of will...: 权力在某种程度上是意志的表现。

In Britain, we have so far escaped, in large measure, either of these afflictions.: 在英国，我们迄今为止已经远远地避开了这两类麻烦。