还没有换成公制(Haven‘t switched to the metric system)——欧美人们认为美国人愚蠢的十大原因

还没有换成公制(Haven't switched to the metric system)——欧美人们认为美国人愚蠢的十大原因在《欧美人们认为美国人愚蠢的十大原因》中排名第12名。我们精选了部...

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法国大革命期间，当法国引进公制时，数学家康多塞特说：“它是为所有人而存在的。”19世纪末20世纪初，许多国家相继采用了公制，荷兰、德国、意大利、葡萄牙、西班牙……甚至拉丁美洲也采用了公制！美国之所以没有效仿，是因为以下几个原因：典型的美国式的成本和转换的不便。但是美国的科学自从有了重要的科学发现后，就不得不进行调整。其中之一就是以公制摩尔为基础的原子量。所以，在这个现代科学的时代，在学校里坚持和仍然学习帝国制度几乎是迟钝的。当时每个国家都在效仿，但由于他们的“金钱和时间”问题，美国仍然使用旧的和现在几乎过时的制度

When the metric system was introduced in France during the French Revolution the mathematician Condorcet said " It's for all people for all time ". Many countries followed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century ( Holland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain... ). Even Latin America adopted the metric system! The United States did not follow based on the following grounds, the cost ( typical American ) and the inconvenience of the change over. But American science had to adapt since important scientefic discoveries were made. One of them is the atomic weight based on the metric system ( the mole ). So, in this era of modern science it's almost becoming retarded to stick and to still learn the imperial system at schools. Every country had followed at time but because of their " money and time " issue are the United States still using the old ( and now almost obsolete ) system.

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老实说，这个应该是显而易见的。我们已经用了这么久了，现在换一个要花很多钱。另外，想想所有会被搞砸的生意，比如卷尺和尺子之类的。如果你愿意的话，你仍然可以用公制，但它不被认为是主要的衡量标准。不管怎么说，帝国制度并不是很难掌握，我不知道为什么有些人把它看得那么重要。-我不相信

To be honest with you guys, this one should be blatantly obvious. We've already used it for so long, and now it would cost a lot of money to switch. Also, think of all the bussinesses that would be screwed over, like tape measurements and rulers and such. You can still use the metric system if you want, but it isn't considered the main measurement. The imperial system isn't that hard to grasp on anyways, I don't know why some people make such a big deal out of it. - Icantbelieveitsnotbutter

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世界其他地方已经发生了变化，但美国人希望世界仍然会为他们转变。我在加拿大的科技行业工作，每次我们设计一些东西，我们都必须在帝国公司做，因为我们大部分产品出口到美国。我发现这对每个人都极不方便

The rest of the world has already switched and yet Americans expect the world to still convert for them. I work in the tech industry in Canada and every time we design something we have to do it in imperial because we do most of our exporting to the US. I find it extremely inconvenient for everyone.

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在美国，科学和医学药理学已经有一段时间转向公制了。谜团在于，除非你学的是高级化学或科学、建筑学，否则它为什么还在学校里教授……我的意思是，拜托，旧的系统就像你在中年一样！谁根据一只脚采取措施？

Science and medical pharmacology have already switch for some time now in America to the metric system. The mystery is why it's still teached at school ( unless you're in advanced Chemistry or science, architecture... ). I mean, come on, the old system is like you're in the middle age! Who takes measures based on a foot?

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这并不意味着我们美国人是愚蠢的。这意味着这里的人们太习惯了，甚至懒得学习一个新的系统。然而，在中西部，我们倾向于通过它需要多长时间来测量距离，而不是多远等等。-斯莱耶里特

This doesn't mean we Americans are stupid. All that means is that people here are too used to it to even bother learning a new system. Out here in the Midwest, however, we tend to measure distances through how long it takes, rather than how far and stuff. - Slayerite

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我是一个美国人，我同意这一点。我们家有时会使用公制，我在新加坡和撒克逊的数学教科书中使用公制，因为它更容易使用。我的意思是每件事都是10的幂和0。当我试图学习帝国制时，很难进行转换。去公制美国

I'm an American and I agree with this. Our family will sometimes use the metric system and in my textbook from Singapore and Saxon Math Textbooks use the metric system because it's just easier to use. I mean everything is in powers of ten with 0000s. When I tried to learn the imperial system it was very hard doing the conversion. GO METRIC AMERICA.

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以下是你如何知道公制在各方面都是优越的。即使是英制单位也由+/根据各自的公制单位来定义。美国科学家已经在使用公制了

Here's how you know the metric system is superior in all regards. Even the units in the imperial system are defined by/based on their respective metric counterparts. American scientists already work with the metric system.

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那是因为我们有更大的事情要担心，比如在我们令人惊叹的军队里训练我们令人惊叹的士兵。另外，谁在乎公制？我是说，到目前为止，它对我们有用。如果它没有坏，就别修了

That's because we have bigger things to worry about like training our amazing soldiers in our amazing military. Plus, who cares about the metric system? I mean, it's worked for us this far. If it's not broken don't fix it.

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这对我来说真的是一件大事。我住在美国，我拒绝理解帝国制，因为它太令人困惑了。我宁愿我们采用公制

This is a really big deal for me. I live in The United States and I refuse to understand the imperial system because it is just too confusing. I'd much rather prefer that we followed the metric system.

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公制可以进行数万、几百、上千的转换，其中大部分是零。公制单位之间有许多连接

The metric system can switch by tens, hundreds, thousands, which is mostly by zeros. And metric units have many connections to each other.