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VERB
（常指用某種儀器）測量，測定，算出
If you gauge the speed or strength of something, or if you gauge an amount, you measure or calculate it, often by using a device of some kind.
例句
He gauged the wind at over thirty knots...
他測出風速在30節以上。
Distance is gauged by journey time rather than miles.
距離以行程時間而非英里數來計算。
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測量儀器；計量儀
A gauge is a device that measures the amount or quantity of something and shows the amount measured.
例句
...temperature gauges.
溫度計
...pressure gauges.
壓力計
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VERB
判斷，判定（人的行動、情感或意圖）
If you gauge people's actions, feelings, or intentions in a particular situation, you carefully consider and judge them.
例句
...as he gauged possible enemy moves and his own responses...
他在盤算著敵人可能的動向和自己的對策時
His mood can be gauged by his reaction to the most trivial of incidents.
從他對雞毛蒜皮的小事的反應就可以判斷出他的情緒。
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N-SING
（評價或判斷的）事實，依據，標準
A gauge of someone's feelings or a situation is a fact or event that can be used to judge them.
例句
The index is the government's chief gauge of future economic activity.
這一指數是政府判斷未來經濟活動的主要依據。
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（鐵道的）軌距
A gauge is the distance between the two rails on a railway line.
例句
...a narrow gauge railway.
窄軌鐵路
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（金屬等的）厚度；（金屬絲等的）直徑
A gauge is the thickness of something, especially metal or wire.