You can use it in things like thermometers, in barometers.

你可以把它用在温度计、气压计之类的东西上。

Sometimes the wind comes alone, and goes on its way, and leaves a still lower barometer behind it.

有时风单独来， 然后继续前进， 并在它后面留一更低的气压计。

The first warning he had that there was trouble ahead came when he glanced into the Wasp's cabin and observed that the barometer had fallen sharply.

第一麻烦来了。他瞥了一眼黄蜂号的船舱，发现里面的气压计上的指数在飞速的往降。

There was a deafening hissing and crackling, and the needle on the air pressure indicator dropped from 70 to 65 to 60 pounds in two seconds.

之后发出了震耳欲聋的嘶嘶声和噼啪声，气压计上的指针在两秒内从70降到65，降到60磅。

Above this table was an oval barometer with a black border enlivened with gilt bands, on which the flies had so licentiously disported themselves that the gilding had become problematical.

桌子上方是一椭圆形的气压计，黑色边框饰有镀金条带，苍蝇在其上肆意游荡，以至于镀金都成了问题。