measures的中文翻译是什么意思

VERB衡量；估量;评估;判定

If you measure the quality, value, or effect of something, you discover or judge how great it is.

• 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。

VERB测量;度量;计量

If you measure a quantity that can be expressed in numbers, such as the length of something, you discover it using a particular instrument or device, for example a ruler.

• 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。

VERB距离(或长度、宽度、数量等)为…

If something measures a particular length, width, or amount, that is its size or intensity, expressed in numbers.

• 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。

N-SING相当数量;一定程度

A measure of a particular quality, feeling, or activity is a fairly large amount of it.

• 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。

N-SING（情形严重或发展到了一定程度的）体现，表现，标志

If you say that one aspect of a situation is a measure of that situation, you mean that it shows that the situation is very serious or has developed to a very great extent.

• 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。

N-COUNT措施;办法

When someone, usually a government or other authority, takes measures to do something, they carry out particular actions in order to achieve a particular result.

• 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。

N-COUNT(标准量的)一杯(烈性酒)

A measure of a strong alcoholic drink such as brandy or whisky is an amount of it in a glass. In pubs and bars, a measure is an official standard amount.

• 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

N-COUNT(音乐的)小节

In music, a measure is one of the several short parts of the same length into which a piece of music is divided.

PHRASE非常;极其

If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.

• 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。

PHRASE附加地;除此之外地

If you say that something is done for good measure, you mean that it is done in addition to a number of other things.

• 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。

PHRASE了解;熟悉;估量…的能力/掂量出…的分量;摸清…的底细

If you get or take the measure of someone or something, you discover what they are like, so that you are able to control them or deal with them. If you have the measure of someone or something, you have succeeded in doing this.

• 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？

PHRASE在某种程度上/在很大程度上

If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.

• 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。