She looked at me strangely, but measured off fifteen meters of Turkey red calico. Then she touched the counter and called out, Cash!

她奇怪地看着我，但还是量出了15米土耳其红色印花布。然后，她摸了摸柜台，喊了一声：" 现金！"

This is why Mr Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, often described as his consigliere, have been working desperately to keep all rival measures off the ballot.

这就是杰里? 布朗和其妻Anne Gust Brown（常被称为杰里的参谋）一直拼命不让其他提案参与投票的原因。

He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.

又量了一千肘，水便成了河，使我不能趟过，因为水势涨起，成为可洑的水，不可趟的河。

Whoever discovers a new mine, is entitled to measure off two hundred and forty-six feet in length, according to what he supposes to be the direction of the vein, and half as much in breadth.

谁发现新矿，谁有权根据他推测的矿脉方向测量长度为 246 英尺，宽度为一半。