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Holding something up against a fixed scale to find out how much of it there is — its size, length, or amount in units. From that act of checking-against-a-scale grow the tool you check with, a marked-off quantity of something, a step taken in the right proportion to a problem, and many phrases about degree and amount.
可以想成把一樣東西靠到一把固定的尺上，量出它「有多少」——多長、多大、多重。measure 的各個意思都從這個「靠著…更多收起
可以想成把一樣東西靠到一把固定的尺上，量出它「有多少」——多長、多大、多重。measure 的各個意思都從這個「靠著刻度量一量」的動作長出來：量東西的工具、量出來的一份份量、為對付問題而採取的恰當步驟，以及一堆講「程度」「分量」的片語。原始詞典資料28 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
measurenoun/ˈmɛʒ.ə/
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obsoleteA prescribed quantity or extent.
- I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
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A prescribed quantity or extent.
- Mom's rage has no measure.
- Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.
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A prescribed quantity or extent.
- It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
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cookingfoodlifestyleThe act or result of measuring.
- a measure of salt
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The act or result of measuring.
- By what measure should we judge the performance of our teachers?
- Honesty is the true measure of a man.
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The act or result of measuring.
- The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
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The act or result of measuring.
- The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).
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The act or result of measuring.
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
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archaicThe act or result of measuring.
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The act or result of measuring.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesThe act or result of measuring.
- coal measures; lead measures
- For many years the coal measures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.
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archaicmathematicssciencesThe act or result of measuring.
- the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
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mathematicsmeasure-theorysciencesThe act or result of measuring.
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archaicMetrical rhythm.
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archaicMetrical rhythm.
- He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / "Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.
- They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
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communicationsjournalismliteratureMetrical rhythm.
- a poem in iambic measure
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entertainmentlifestylemusicMetrical rhythm.
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A course of action.
- The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..
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A course of action.
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
measureverb/ˈmɛʒ.ə/
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To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- We measured the temperature with a thermometer.
- You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
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To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement).
- The window measured two square feet.
- This park is the first large-scale public park in Taiwan. It is located on the border of Nantzu District in Kaohsiung City and Chiaotou village, Kaohsiung County and this park measures 95 hectares.
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To estimate the unit size of something.
- I measure that at 10 centimetres.
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To judge, value, or appraise.
- ſince they meaſure our deſerts so meane, That in conceit beare Empires on our ſpeares, Affecting thoughts coequall with the cloudes, They ſhalbe kept our forced followers, Til with their eies they view vs Emperours.
- Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
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To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
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rareTo traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
- "And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."
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To adjust by a rule or standard.
- To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires
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To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To measure one’s own activity, to make it conform to these standards of clearness, brevity and truth, is practically a very difficult matter.
- In its opening portrait of Madame Caillaux, the rightist and anti-Caillaux Illustration asked its readers to imagine not a wronged victim or a female ruled by emotion but a careful player who measured her every word.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。