metric system

基本解釋

Most countries adopt metric system and so his country did.
大多數(shù)國家采取米制，他的國家也是這樣。
For example, we use the metric system of measurement, the US uses a different system of measurement.
我們使用公制計量法而美國卻使用一種不同的計量法。
But hisown views were more moderately right-wing, extending to a liking for law andorder and a horror of the metric system.
但是他自己卻屬于更溫和的右翼，并進而發(fā)展為喜歡法律與秩序，厭惡公制體系。

Unlike the metric system, however, the new standard is not clearly any better than the old.
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Americans today are just as ignorant of the metric system as they were 15 years ago—except pot-smokers.
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For most of us soccer is just an odd affectation of foreigners, like minuscule cars, pink shirts on men and the metric system.
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The metric system is the system of measurement that uses metres, grams, and litres.