weighing machine

基本解释

On any given day, the stock market is a voting machine, ’’ he said, and only ‘‘in the long run is it a weighing machine.
他认为在某些时候，股票市场仅仅是投票机，而要想使其发挥衡量的作用，则需要长期的时间。
"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
从短期来看，市场是一台投票机，但从长期来看，市场是一台称重机。
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.
称重机的接口有一个方法 —— weighJarGrams() —— 它将一直阻塞到下一个罐子传过称重机，并返回该罐子以克数计算的质量。

Here is a weighing machine and that's you standing on the elevator.
这是个称重器,然后你在电梯里
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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.
但是如果我在加速运动,那么弹簧的弹力,也就是称重机上指针的读数就是 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