known quantity

基本解釋

Comparisons to a known quantity can help prospective customers understand where your product or service fits in the range of solutions they are considering.
同一個(gè)知名品牌的比較，才能讓潛在客戶(hù)明白你的產(chǎn)品和服務(wù)是如何滿(mǎn)足他們的需求的。
It's good that the boss likes you, but when faced with serious challenges to the ongoing success of the company, being a liked, known quantity is not enough.
上司喜歡你是很好，但是在面對(duì)關(guān)系公司發(fā)展成功的重要挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)，僅僅取得上司的喜歡，以及具有大家早已知道的辦事能力還是不夠的。
This found that if the reverse idea of the electron charge-mass ratio as a known quantity, it can re-theoretical derivation, and thus obtain the value of the vacuum in the speed of light.
筆者發(fā)現(xiàn)，如果進(jìn)行逆向構(gòu)思，把電子的荷質(zhì)比作為已知量時(shí)，可重新進(jìn)行理論推導(dǎo)從而得到真空中的光速值。

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We put a known quantity up there, " says Kaufman, "to keep the emotions at a lower level.
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