The foot and the pound, to British chagrin, were legally agreed to be mere fractions of these fundamental units.

令英国人懊恼的是，英尺和英镑只是合法衡量这两种基本量的单位。

Cells are a fundamental unit of all life on Earth that help us understand everything from the teeniest microbes to the blubberiest whales.

细胞是地球上所有生命的基本单位，它帮助我们了解从最微小的微生物到最胖的鲸鱼的一切。

And how can we scientifically define this fundamental unit of time?

我们如何科学地定义这个基本时间单位？

All organisms are composed of cells, the basic fundamental unit of life.

所有生物体均由细胞组成，细胞是生命的基本单位。

Now, the fundamental unit of information on all of the computers we're used to, like this one, it's called a " bit."

现在，我们习惯使用的所有计算机上的基本信息单位，就像这台计算机， 被称为“位” 。

Of course when these geniuses were first piecing together how the world works they had no idea that there were fundamental basic units beneath it all.

当然，当这些天才第一次拼凑出世界是如何运转的时， 他们并不知道在这一切之下还有基本的基本单位。

Now, the fundamental unit of information of a quantum computer, it's called a " qubit." It stands for " quantum bit." Instead of having just two states, like zero or one, a qubit can be an infinite number of states.

现在，量子计算机的基本信息单位被称为“量子比特”。它代表“量子比特”。一个量子比特可以是无限数量的状态，而不是只有两种状态，如零或一。