weighing machine

基本解釋

On any given day, the stock market is a voting machine, ’’ he said, and only ‘‘in the long run is it a weighing machine.
他認爲在某些時候，股票市場僅僅是投票機，而要想使其發(fā)揮衡量的作用，則需要長期的時間。
"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." -- Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor
從短期來看，市場是一臺投票機，但從長期來看，市場是一臺稱重機。
The interface to the weighing machine has one method --- weighJarGrams() --- which blocks until the next jar passes over the scales and returns that jar's mass in grams.
稱重機的接口有一個方法 —— weighJarGrams() —— 它將一直阻塞到下一個罐子傳過稱重機，竝返廻該罐子以尅數計算的質量。

Here is a weighing machine and that's you standing on the elevator.
這是個稱重器,然後你在電梯裡
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But if I'm accelerating, the force exerted by the spring and therefore, the needle the weighing machine reads is m.
但是如果我在加速運動,那麼彈簧的彈力,也就是稱重機上指針的讀數就是 m
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Benjamin Graham said that in the short-term the stock market is a voting machine, while in the long-term it is a weighing machine.
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It is often said that the stock market in the short run is a voting machine and a weighing machine in the long run.
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a piece of equipment that you can stand on to find out your weight, or place an object on to find its weight