metric system
常见例句
- Most countries adopt metric system and so his country did.
大多数国家采取米制，他的国家也是这样。 - For example, we use the metric system of measurement, the US uses a different system of measurement.
我们使用公制计量法而美国却使用一种不同的计量法。 - But hisown views were more moderately right-wing, extending to a liking for law andorder and a horror of the metric system.
但是他自己却属于更温和的右翼，并进而发展为喜欢法律与秩序，厌恶公制体系。 - 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