They are all part of the metric system.

他们是公制一部分。

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.

如果你看过我关于公制发明，你就会知道，最好意图，如果执行得不好，会以一些重大而意想不到方式扰乱历史和科学。

So by the second half of the 20th century, Celsius became popular in many parts of the world, when many English-speaking countries began using the metric system.

于是在 20 世纪后半，当许多英语系国家开始采用公制时，摄氏也被广泛应用在世界各地。

Hope you like reading the metric system.

希望你喜欢读公制（刻度）。

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。

I had such a horrible time converting these recipes from the metric system.

要把些食谱从公制单位换算过来，可真是把我折腾坏了。

Just to pick at random, there would be no metric system, no Louisiana purchase, no France to back the Americans in the Revolutionary Wars.

少了哪一个，就不会有公制，不会有路易斯安那购地案，不会有法国在独立战争中支持美国。

I'm not sure. We're in the process of converting to the metric system.

我不清楚。我们正在进行系统更新和转换。

If you grow up with our system, it's perfect, it makes sense, it's great and for us when we travel to your country and you're on the metric system, we're like, no, I don't understand.

如果你在我们个系统下成长，那很好，得通，对于我们去你们国家旅行时，你们测量系统也会让我们看不懂。

In 1795, a new simpler method of measurement called the metric system was invented and aimed to take a lot of the randomness out of things, so they could be measured more evenly.

1795年时候发明了一种新更简单测量方法，称为公制，公制旨在消除很多随机性，从而可以更平均地进行测量。

So, in 2019, the base units that make up the foundation of the metric or SI system were redefined to no longer rely on imperfect human artifacts.

因此，在 2019 年，构成公制或 SI 系统基础基本单位被重新定义为不再依赖不完美人类工件。

It's important to note that at the time Canada was in the middle of converting from barbarian Imperial Units over to the glorious metric system for their aviation industry.

有一个背景非常重要，那时加拿大航空业正处于从蛮横英制单位向公制单位转化过渡期。

For those of us in the U.S., Myanmar, and Liberia who don't use the metric system, that's about 25 cents per gallon.

对于不使用公制我们些美国人、缅甸人和利比里亚人来，每加仑汽油是25美分。

While some people use the metric system, our idioms and expressions often stick with measurement words from the English system.

虽然有些人使用公制单位，但我们习语和短语往往坚持使用英制单位中测量词。

FYI, insisting on using the metric system in East Texas is another reason I was hunted by predators.

另外一句，在东德州还坚持用米制单位也是我被捕食者追杀原因之一。

So it seems like a no brainer— America needs to switch to the metric system to match the rest of the world.

所以事情看起来再简单不过了—美国需要改用公制来融入世界。

The metric system was a wonderful gift to the world.

公制是献给世界一份很好礼物。

Today, other than a handful of notable exceptions, the modern world relies on a shared system of measurement much like what Wilkins first proposed, the metric system.

今天，除了少数值得注意例外，现代世界依赖于一个共同测量系统，很像威尔金斯首先提出公制。

So why did the United States stick with miles feet and inches when the rest of the world switched to the even more modern metric system?

所以为什么当世界其他地区改用更现代公制时候，美国却坚持坚持英尺和英寸呢？

But Air Canada had so far only began using the metric system on their brand-new 767 planes, which of course Air Canada flight 143 was one of.

但是，加拿大航空公司此时只在他们全新767飞机上使用公制单位，当然 加拿大航空143次航班正是其中一架。