Americans give the merest mumbling lip service to the metric system,while continuing to quantify almost everything with the tried-and-true units of measure-ment they have used since before the French Revolu-tion.

• 美国人纯粹只是口头上说要使用公制度量。不论计量什么，他们几乎都是沿用法国大革命前的行之有 效的度量单位。