For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention - so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.

对于公共机构而言，国家专项拨款或多或少会取决于高校在其毕业率和学生就读率等方面的表现，因此，通过提高诸如此类的数字，就会有更好的成绩，也意味着更多的钱。

By every metric, Facebook is a success.

从各个方面来，Facebook 都是成功的。

In one study, researchers asked givers and recipients to rate gifts along two metrics: Desirability, like a fancy but complicated coffee maker, and feasibility, like a coffee maker you can actually use without studying the instructions.

在一项研究中，研究人员让送礼者和收礼者根据两项指标给礼物打分: 受欢迎程度，就像一个高端但复杂的咖啡壶；和可行性，比如一个说明就能的咖啡壶。

I made it look a lot more boring, added some endorsements, some metrics.

我让它起来更正式了，添加了一些背书和指标。

They are all part of the metric system.

他们是公制的一部分。

All right. I accept this reduced offer at $ 98 per metric ton FOB stowed.

好吧。我接受每公吨98美元含理舱费的离岸价。

Although the rime is consistent, there's not really a standard meter, most of the lines are iambic hexameter which means each line has six metric feet.

虽然节拍是一致的，但并没有标准的节拍，大多数诗都是抑扬格六格诗，也就是说每句诗有六格。

Researchers at the institute for health metrics and evaluation in America put the death toll in 2017 at 1.24 million.

美国健康计量和评估研究所的研究人员认为，2017 年的死亡人数为 124万。

The big change is that similar metrics and rating systems are spreading to more and more parts of the economy.

最大的变化是，类似的指标和评级体系正蔓延到越来越多的经济领域。

But stocks reflect these other metrics.

但股票能反映其他指标。

Ultimately, we want to get to a metric where people can tell us, " Hey, I learned something from Twitter, and I'm walking away with something valuable" .

最终，我们想得到一个人们可以告诉我们的度量，" 我从推特上学到一些东西，然后我带走了一些有价值的东西。"

If you've seen my video about the invention of the metric system, you know that the best intentions, executed poorly, can mess up history and science in some significant and unexpected ways.

如果你过我关于公制发明的视频，你就会知道，最好的意图，如果执行得好，会以一些重大而意想到的方式扰乱历史和科学。

Hope you like reading the metric system.

希望你喜欢读公制（刻度）。

The amounts are so big they're measured in gigatonnes-that's a billion metric tonnes.

数量过大以至于它们是兆吨计量的——它相当于100万立方吨。

In metric units, which of these prefixes means " billion" ?

以下的公制单位中，哪一个前缀表示" 十亿" ？

So on my team, I had a senior staff member who was responsible for helping me run team meetings, helping me gather data, planning for team events, looking at metrics, being part of performance improvement projects.

所以在我的团队中，我有一个高级职员，他负责帮我开团队会议、帮我收集数据、计划团队活动、查指标、参与绩效改进项目。

About half of the peninsula in the summer , every day, 11 metric tons of this material is being recovered at a partner facility.

在这个夏天，每天，大约一半的半岛大小的量，11公吨的这种塑料正在被一个合作设施回收。

Stress has a negative influence on all kinds of cognitive metrics.

压力对各种认知均有消极影响。

That also means our success cannot be easily measured by some general metrics.

这也意味着，我们的成功能轻易某种通的标准来衡量。

Now, Franklin lived during the 1700s, before the metric system took effect in Europe.

富兰克林生活在18世纪，那时候欧洲还没有实行公制。