measure up

基本解释

So how does your shampoo measure up?
好了，現在如何來衡量你的香波呢？
Take a little time to measure up your chance before deciding.
做出決定前花點時間估量一下你的機會如何。
Newspapers were inundated with letters today from concerned readers who worried that they wouldn't measure up.
今天，各家報社已被那些擔心自己尺寸不達標的讀者信件所淹沒。

He said,"We are a great nation, a prosperous and compassionate one, but our health care system doesn't measure up to that greatness."
In other words, Foucault is up to something interesting, and probably we should meet him at least halfway to see, to measure, the degree of interest we may have in it.
換言之，福柯在從事很有趣的事業，或許我們至少可以在半途加入他的行列,去看看我們是否也能對此有興趣。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
You measure your temperature is a little up, you've got a fever, something's wrong, I better find out what that is' because temperature is a very highly controlled variable.
你測出躰溫偏高是,你就發燒了,身躰哪裡出問題了,我最好把問題找出來,因爲躰溫是一個嚴格控制的身躰指標
耶魯公開課 - 生物毉學工程探索課程節選

We must also do more to help children when their schools do not measure up.
NPR: Text of Bush's State of the Union Address

If you do not measure up to a standard or to someone's expectations, you are not good enough to achieve the standard or fulfil the person's expectations.