The next nudge to metricate came when the metric system became the preferred measure for American trade and commerce in 1988.

当公制在 1988 年成为美国贸易和商业的首选措施时政府再继续推动这项制度。

We'd just built a lot of infrastructure, powerful industrialists blocked attempts at metricating.

我们刚刚建立了很多基础设施，强大的实业家阻止了计量的尝试。

The UK metricated in 1965 so that they could do more trade with the European Common Market, and the United States was part of this general trend towards metric.

英国在 1965 年采用公制，以便他们可以与欧洲共同市场进行更多贸易，而美国是这种采用公制的总体趋势的一部分。