metric system
常见例句
- Most countries adopt metric system and so his country did.
大多數國家採取米制，他的國家也是這樣。 - For example, we use the metric system of measurement, the US uses a different system of measurement.
我們使用公制計量法而美國卻使用一種不同的計量法。 - 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，竝進而發展爲喜歡法律與秩序，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