Hope you like reading the metric system.

希望你喜欢读公制（刻度）。

FYI, insisting on using the metric system in East Texas is another reason I was hunted by predators.

另外说一句，在东德州还坚持用米制单位也是我被捕食者追杀的原因之一。

While some people use the metric system, our idioms and expressions often stick with measurement words from the English system.

虽然有些人使用公制单位，但我们的习语和短语往往坚持使用英制单位中的测量词。

For those of us in the U.S., Myanmar, and Liberia who don't use the metric system, that's about 25 cents per gallon.

对于不使用公制的我们这些美国人、缅甸人和利比里亚人来说，每加仑汽油是25美分。

[Man] Why don't you use the metric system man, so annoying.

- [ 男人] 你为什么不使用公制男人，好烦人。

Adopting the metric system is something that a majority of Americans would have to get behind.

采用公制是大多数美国人必须支持的事情。

Cafee said an important part of his platform is getting the US to finally adopt the metric system.

- Cafee 说他的平台的一个重要部分是让美国最终采用公制。

Almost everyone on the planet uses the metric system but why has the United States held out?

地球上几乎每个人都使用公制，但为什么美国坚持使用公制？

The reason Americans don't use the metric system is a saga spanning over 200 years, with a twist ending.

美国人不使用公制的原因是一个跨越 200 多年的传奇故事，结局曲折。

But Air Canada had so far only began using the metric system on their brand-new 767 planes, which of course Air Canada flight 143 was one of.

但是，加拿大航空公司此时只在他们全新的767飞机上使用公制单位，当然 加拿大航空143次航班正是其中一架。

For those of you who use the metric system, which is most of you, a pint is about half of a liter.

对于大多数使用公制的人来说，一品脱大约是半升。

But over the next two centuries, the British Empire slowly transitioned, first approving the metric system as an optional alternative before gradually making it offical.

但在接下来的两个世纪里， 大英帝国慢慢转变，首先批准公制作为一种可选的选择，然后逐渐将其正式化。

By the middle of the 1800's, the French were really promoting the metric system, with an eye toward making international trade more efficient and profitable.

到 1800 年代中期，法国人真正在推广公制，着眼于提高国际贸易的效率和利润。

In 1795, a new simpler method of measurement called the metric system was invented and aimed to take a lot of the randomness out of things, so they could be measured more evenly.

1795年的时候发明了一种新的更简单的测量方法，称为公制，公制旨在消除很多随机性，从而可以更平均地进行测量。

The United States of America stuck with the English units of its colonial past and today remains one of only three countries which haven't fully embraced the metric system.

美利坚合众国一直沿用其殖民时期的英制单位，如今仍是仅有的三个未完全采用公制的国家之一。

It took time for the metric system to take hold across the world, but today every country in the world either has the metric system in place or is in the process of transitioning to it.

公制在全球范围内花了很多时间，但是今天世界上每个国家都已建立公制或正在过渡到公制。

When I was going through school, I was in grade school – elementary school – in 1975, I remember our teachers telling us that very soon, in another 5 or 10 years, every one in the U.S. will be using the metric system.

我还在读小学时， 1975 年，我记得我们的老师告诉我们， 很快，再过 5 年或 10 年，美国的每个人都将使用公制。