gauge
n. 测量的标准或范围; 尺度,标准; 测量仪器; 评估
vt. (用仪器)测量; 确定容量,体积或内容; 评估,判断; 采用
If you gauge the speed or strength of something, or if you gauge an amount, you measure or calculate it, often by using a device of some kind.
He gauged the wind at over thirty knots...
他测出风速在30节以上。
Distance is gauged by journey time rather than miles.
距离以行程时间而非英里数来计算。
A gauge is a device that measures the amount or quantity of something and shows the amount measured.
...temperature gauges.
温度计
...pressure gauges.
压力计
If you gauge people's actions, feelings, or intentions in a particular situation, you carefully consider and judge them.
...as he gauged possible enemy moves and his own responses...
他在盘算着敌人可能的动向和自己的对策时
His mood can be gauged by his reaction to the most trivial of incidents.
从他对鸡毛蒜皮的小事的反应就可以判断出他的情绪。
A gauge of someone's feelings or a situation is a fact or event that can be used to judge them.
The index is the government's chief gauge of future economic activity.
这一指数是政府判断未来经济活动的主要依据。
A gauge is the distance between the two rails on a railway line.
...a narrow gauge railway.
窄轨铁路
A gauge is the thickness of something, especially metal or wire.
1. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
2. accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
3. the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
4. the thickness of wire
5. diameter of a tube or gun barrel
1. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
2. rub to a uniform size;
3. determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation;
4. measure precisely and against a standard;
5. adapt to a specified measurement;
6. mix in specific proportions;
standard, criterion, measure, gauge
这些名词均含"标准"之意。
My gas gauge is way down.
车子油表降到底了.
It's difficult to gauge one's character.
要判断一个人的品格是很困难的.
What gauge wires are you installing for your stereo speakers?
你要给立体声音箱装哪个规格的电线?
I tried to gauge the depth of her sleep by the rate of her respiration.
我试图通过她的呼吸速率来测定她的睡眠深度.
What was the gauge reading before you hit the switch?
你按下开关前,上面的读数是多少?