Despite constant initiatives for metrication, many Americans consider units like feet and pounds more intuitive.

尽管不断提出公制化的倡议，但许多美国人认为英尺和磅等单位更直观。

Before metrication, GM had over 900 fan belts of various sizes in their supply chain.

在公制化之前，通用汽车的供应链中有 900 多条不同尺寸的风扇皮带。

After metrication, they only needed 100 sizes, and that reduced the cost of warehousing all their parts.

公制化后，他们只需要 100 种尺寸，这降低了所有零件的仓储成本。

He got laughed at, but still, Hawaii and Oregon both introduced metrication bills, they died in committee, but still.

他被嘲笑，但夏威夷和俄勒冈州都引入了公制法案，他们在委员会中去世了，但仍然如此。

During this time, the United States was ripe for metrication, Francophile Thomas Jefferson was secretary of state, and enlightenment sympathetic George Washington was the President.

在此期间，美国公制化的时机已经成熟，亲法者托马斯·杰斐逊担任国务卿， 启蒙运动同情者乔治·华盛顿担任总统。

But by the time the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 hit President Gerald Ford's desk, it was a toothless bill that said metrication was encouraged, but voluntary.

但是当 1975 年的公制换算法案摆在杰拉尔德·福特总统的办公桌上时，这是一个没有牙齿的法案，它说公制是鼓励的，但是是自愿的。