| 词汇 | example_english_barometer |
| 释义 | Examples of barometerThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The need for deft handling is acknowledged : ' although the graphic satires ' relation to reality was skewed by fantasy and illusion, they remain invaluable cultural barometers' (p. 11). Moreover, these traditional barometers have an unlimited lifespan, unlike their digital successors, which work on batteries and therefore use energy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Alternatively, they can buy a second-hand one, as the directive is about the release onto the market of new barometers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We cannot, for reasons of nostalgia, continue to produce barometers that are environmental hazards. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If they were genuine they would only show what is happening, but they do not even do that, so they are merely pseudo-barometers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The present levels of unemployment and inflation—the most obvious barometers of success or failure—are wholly unacceptable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Barometers may break or leak, so that mercury ends up in the environment anyway. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There is no justification whatsoever for a ban on barometers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I believe the transitional period of two years for barometers is quite sufficient. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Barometers are the subject of much debate, as we witnessed a moment ago. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If energy-saving light bulbs were universally used, we would have at least as much of it in our households as at present with traditional barometers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I read the annual reports of the various big banks, which are surely barometers of the financial condition of the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are influenced very much by our interests and those of our constituents, and we are very good barometers of the latter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their effectiveness and productivity are arguably the most important barometers of the effectiveness and productivity of a nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have put in place, for example, legislation on barometers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English One of those exceptions should apply to the production of traditional mercury barometers, as indicated in the adopted text of the resolution. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English No sector has been singled out - not thermometers, nor barometers - because there is going to be a set of actions over a number of years. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Also, as mercury barometers do not require any batteries, they have an unlimited life span. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Unlike barometers, those free market prices have the additional advantage of bringing with them many of the correctives of the weather which they have foretold. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must now say a word about thermometers and barometers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Other forms of mercury use are far more extensive and far more problematic than those in the production of barometers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In the run-up to this debate we received letters to the effect that we must safeguard the manufacture of traditional barometers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I therefore agree with the producers of barometers that the use of mercury in low-energy light bulbs is, of course, also very harmful. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We are willing to extend the exemption period by another two years for traditional barometers, which are, it has to be said, delightful things. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I can also support a time-limited derogation for new barometers containing mercury and manufactured by a few small specialised enterprises. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Even companies that have never known redundancies, such as those that have been the barometers of prosperity, have recently made men redundant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A ban would apply to new mercury barometers, but it seems sensible to regard second-hand barometers as acceptable, as this would make possible their continued sale, repair and maintenance. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The banning of new barometers will not stop pollution; in fact it could become more prevalent as the general public would have nowhere to take their instruments. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Exceptions may, however, be authorised in cases where there are no alternative solutions yet available and in rare cases of keeping traditional barometers, museum collections and industrial heritage. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English How many children eat barometers? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English An important element in the history of elections in this country is that by-elections are often the barometers that register public opinion, which can then influence the nature of government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe it is accepted that in the western industrialised countries one of the major barometers of success is the state and condition of the country's vehicle industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is an amendment about licensing barometers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Clause 60 deals with the provision of barometers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am amazed that anyone at all can believe that it is more important to go on manufacturing old-style barometers and thermometers than to protect public health. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Barometers are the subject of much debate. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English A transitional period of two years, as now provided in the directive, is perfectly adequate to allow the few remaining manufacturers of mercury barometers to convert to alternatives. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Even today they offer beautiful barometers that show not the slightest external difference from the barometers that were manufactured in the past, but they no longer contain mercury. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There is nothing to stop manufacturers from selling new barometers without any mercury, along with a set of instructions on how consumers can fill them themselves. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The best barometers, the best interpreters of the political mood of the country, are the national opinion polls in which voting trends are recorded and published. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are false barometers of the situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A fuel poverty committee was set up and during one of our coldest winters it ran around distributing barometers to pensioners so that they did not die of hypothermia. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Just some of such instruments included chronometers, telescopes, sextants, microscopes, magnetic compasses, thermometers, hygrometers, barometers, electrometers, and eudiometers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His hobbies included building thermometers and barometers, and constructing pianos and clavichords. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She describes this phenomenon as the ' broken-barometer ' theory of women's history. Consider also that the pressure is normally known through instruments (barometers) near the ground/sea level. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Abbe then invented an anemobarometer to test the effect of chimney and window drafts on barometers in enclosed spaces. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The observatory still retains barometers and other instrumentation dating from the late 19th century. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Though somewhat rare, a few aneroid barometers intended for monitoring the weather are calibrated to manually adjust for altitude. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Figure 3 can be used as a barometer to determine where in the theoretical cycle we are at present. There he also kept an astronomical regulator, heliostat, spectroscope, diffraction gratings, microscope with micrometer, balance, thermometers and barometers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The use of reliable barometers enabled the accurate measurement of variations in air pressure the fundamental principle in the assessment of weather changes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The invention of several different types of barometers was attributed to him. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The first set of experiments relates to determining air pressure with mercury barometers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He maintained meteorological registers, apart from supplying barometers to volunteers and graphically summarising the records of others. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They act like barometers of change in the political mood since they push the major parties to consider their demands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Early barometers used a column of liquid such as water or the liquid metal mercury suspended by a vacuum. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He invented barometers and instruments for instrument flight in airplanes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He devoted his last years to the construction of instruments including thermometers and barometers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His surviving works include treatises on theories of light, heat and electricity and on the causes of the movement of mercury in barometers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He even learned how to make new barometers by himself. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In general, non-professional barometers are aneroid barometers or strain gauge based. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Such barometers are an enclosed column of mercury standing vertically with gradations on the tube. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To find their location they used astronomical observations, and to find elevation levels and barometers were used. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Convex menisci occur, for example, between mercury and glass in barometers and thermometers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Scientists at the time were familiar with small fluctuations in height that occurred in barometers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The pressure is measured with a mechanical barometer, which has the advantage of being insensitive to the electromagnetic noise created during the discharge. More than just institutional trappings, the capital market and its performance were regarded as a barometer of investor confidence in economic policies. Water vapour pressure depresses the reading of water barometers, and the magnitude of this error increases with temperature. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In 1826 these included barometer maker, furniture broker, glass dealer, marble mason, goldsmith and fishmonger. He is famous also for the construction of statistical indices for measuring the conjuntural effects (economic barometers). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The barometer dropped to a low of 743 mm. The products he designed and manufactured included spectroscopes, telescopes, microscopes, barometers, photometers, cameras, ophthalmoscopes, and electrical equipment such as electric lamps. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He made and repaired brass reflecting quadrants, parallel rulers, scales, parts for telescopes, and barometers, among other things. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The temp track is a multi-level blueprint as well as barometer, revealing an essential vision of intent, the employment of cultural/affective codes, and audio-visual conventions. However, this growth is slight if the gas is insoluble and distance travelled is very much smaller than the height of a barometer containing the liquid. When barometers in the home are set to match the local weather reports, they measure pressure reduced to sea level, not the actual local atmospheric pressure. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The article has also shown that the ideological spectrum did not act as some kind of simple barometer for how different individuals or groups would respond. The constructed quality of the newspaper means that, unfortunately, it is of limited use as a barometer of the incidence of and trends in criminal activity. Their closeness to the constituent groups, particularly to the general musical public, makes them a useful musical barometer in assessing the success of the policy of access. He learned soon how to refill damaged tubes of mercury barometers, which he bought from another haberdasher and sold with some advantage on his sale trips. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The experienced breast oncologist has a good internal barometer for noting emotional responses that fall outside the range of normal and referring those women for psychiatric evaluation. They can serve as clinical barometers of consciousness. I would certainly need kites or tethered balloons to carry thermometers and barometers up into the air. I have not tried to accommodate the spring elections, even though these served as important barometers of public opinion. Different barometers are set for measuring effective succession. Because popular music is often as responsive to economic and political developments as it is to nuances of taste, such studies can serve as valuable barometers of social change. The instruments included whirling psychrometers to measure dry bulb and wet bulb temperatures, digital barometers for pressure, cup anemometers for wind speed, and infra-red thermometers for cloud temperature. Such a 'barometer' subjects the changing economic conditions to a system of linear and continuous measurement. Why is the height of a simple barometer lower at high altitudes than at low altitudes? Patients monitored their disease progress using other patients as a barometer of reference. In this sense, the questions assess how the relationship makes the child feel, probably a good barometer of intimacy and ambivalence. A final index, the consumption of material goods, is an additional barometer in this regard. A barometer can be used to measure atmospheric pressure. He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room. He concludes that sociolinguistics provides a barometer of social change that is more acute than more conventional measures. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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