[Assistant] 42 US liquid gallons equals 672 US customary cups.

美国的42加仑液体相当于672美国特有的标准度杯。

Now researchers have used that modern metric on ancient settlements.

现在，研究人员用现度标准测住宅。

And there is a metric for this.

这是有度标准的。

Reason 3: And the final reason, time is an imprecise metric.

最后一个原因，时间是一个不精确的度标准。

It happens gradually, along a metric known as the Norwood Scale, which describes the severity of hair loss.

它根据一个度标准逐渐发生的，这个度叫诺伍德分型，它描述了脱发的严重程度。

Caterpillar said their switch to metrics saved them millions of dollars.

Caterpillar 表示，他转向度标准为他节省了数百万美元。

And we were born on the same day in the same metric.

我出生在同一天，使用的是相同的度标准。

Maybe the metric is learned or not, but you don't need to further train it.

也许这个度标准是已学习过的，也可能不是，但您无需对其进行进一步训练。

That's his idea of a standard metric?

这就是他对标准度的理解？

You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, large and small.

你家中不可有两样不同的度标准，即大和小。

A " car length" is not a standardized unit of measure.

" 长" 不是个标准化的度单位。

So it's the fastest by some metric, and the cost of that computer is about $600 million.

因此，它在某种度标准下是最快的，而那台计算机的成本大约是6亿美元。

Right, so all of these in this list that you mentioned, these are yardsticks, standard candles, right?

好的， 所以你刚才提到的清单中的所有这些，都是度标准， 是标准烛光，对吧？

But I think in culture, this is a general rule that every single standard every single metric has increased in both directions.

但我认为在文化领域，这是一条普遍规律，即每一种标准、每一种度都在两个方向上有所增长。

A new standard for weights and measures was  established, along with a state-run tax system that would keep local corruption to a minimum.

建立了新的度衡标准，以及将地方腐败降至最低的国营税收制度。

Now once we have a distribution like this across  the words, it gives us another situation where entropy becomes this really useful measurement.

现在，一旦我在单词上有了这样的分布，它就给我提供了另一种情况， 在这种情况下， 熵成为了一个非常有用的度标准。

And so I had to find a way to operate them all simultaneously with the same language, the same constructs, the same measurements.

因此，我必须找到一种方法，用相同的语言、相同的结构和相同的度标准同时操作它。

There have been a lot of efforts to make these kind of one-size-fits-all metrics, for example, test or typing coverage, as you described.

已经有很多努力去打造这种“一刀切”的度标准，比如你提到的测试或类型覆盖率。

Then I pick a key metric, and I ask myself if the metric is specific, easy to objectively measure, and representative of true progress towards my goal.

然后我选择一个关键的度标准，我会问自己这个度标准是否具体，是否容易客观地度，是否能够表我朝着目标所取得的真正进展。

There is a useful measure used to rate the quality of the night sky by eye called the  Bortle Scale, which ranges from 1-9.

有一种实用的度标准， 用于通过肉眼评估夜空质， 称为博尔特等级表，其范围从1到9。