A second use of tweets is as a gauge of economic conditions.

推特帖子的第二个用途是作为经济状况的衡量标准。

A gauge of future economic activity in the US suggests strong growth in the month ahead.

衡量未来美国经济活动的强劲增长已经近在眼前。

A gauge of financial conditions compiled by Bloomberg, a data provider, has shown them steadily loosening.

数据提供者彭博社对金融环境的衡量数据显示，金融环境正在稳步放松。

Many of America's biggest companies, including McDonald's, report a negative book value, a gauge of a firm's net assets.

包括麦当劳在内的很多美国最大公司上报的账面价值都是负值，账面价值是对一家公司净资产的估量。

But unless the government concedes that the size of HSBC's global balance-sheet is not a gauge of its risk to Britain, HSBC will worry that its size is capped.

但是除非政府认同汇丰的全球资产负债表的规模并非是衡量其带给英国风险大小的标准，汇丰还是会担心其规模达到上限。

A man in love setting up his brains as a gauge of his position is as one determining a ship's longitude from a light at the mast-head.

一个恋爱中的人用他的大脑来衡量他的位置，就像一个人根据桅杆顶的灯来确定船的经度一样。

So it's hard to get a gauge of how much intensity there's been on the ride with that many that much up and down, um, changes sort of in tempos and everything.

因此，我们很难估量出这趟旅程的强度有多大，上下起伏有多大，嗯，节奏什么的变化有多大。