measure up

基本解释

So how does your shampoo measure up?
好了，现在如何来衡量你的香波呢？
Take a little time to measure up your chance before deciding.
做出决定前花点时间估量一下你的机会如何。
Newspapers were inundated with letters today from concerned readers who worried that they wouldn't measure up.
今天，各家报社已被那些担心自己尺寸不达标的读者信件所淹没。

He said,"We are a great nation, a prosperous and compassionate one, but our health care system doesn't measure up to that greatness."
In other words, Foucault is up to something interesting, and probably we should meet him at least halfway to see, to measure, the degree of interest we may have in it.
换言之，福柯在从事很有趣的事业，或许我们至少可以在半途加入他的行列,去看看我们是否也能对此有兴趣。
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You measure your temperature is a little up, you've got a fever, something's wrong, I better find out what that is' because temperature is a very highly controlled variable.
你测出体温偏高是,你就发烧了,身体哪里出问题了,我最好把问题找出来,因为体温是一个严格控制的身体指标
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We must also do more to help children when their schools do not measure up.
NPR: Text of Bush's State of the Union Address

If you do not measure up to a standard or to someone's expectations, you are not good enough to achieve the standard or fulfil the person's expectations.