Square Units
- This newly-described insect can devour up to a square inch of grass per day. • Oh, neat. • ...it eats a square inch, or 6 cm², of grass per day... • ...a 6-centimeter (2½ inch) square of grass, or 36 cm²... • ...a 36 centimeter square, or over a square foot... • ...a square foot, or 900 cm²... • ...a 900 cm (30 foot) square... • ...a 30 foot square of grass (900 square feet)... • ...a 900 foot square, or almost 20 acres... • ...20 acres (8 hectares, or 80,000 square meters)... • ...an 80,000 meter (80 km) square... • ...a square 80 km wide, or roughly 2,500 square miles... • ...a 2,500-mile square, or twice the land area of Australia, per day... • Did you hear about this insect that defoliates the entire land area of Australia twice a day? • Gosh! • Wow. • I hope at least it's contained there...
The biggest I've seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.
平方单位
- 这种新发现的昆虫每天最多能吃掉一平方英寸的草。
- 哦，有意思。
- “……它每天吃一平方英寸，也就是6平方厘米的草……”
- “……一块6厘米（2½英寸）见方的草地，也就是36平方厘米……”
- “……一块36厘米见方的草地，超过一平方英尺……”
- “……一平方英尺，也就是900平方厘米……”
- “……一块900厘米（30英尺）见方的地……”
- “……一块30英尺见方的草地（900平方英尺）……”
- “……一块900英尺见方的地，差不多20英亩……”
- “……20英亩（8公顷，或者80000平方米）……”
- “……一块80000米（80公里）见方的地……”
- “……一个80公里宽的正方形，大概2500平方英里……”
- “……一个2500英里见方的区域，或者说澳大利亚陆地面积的两倍，每天……”
- 你听说了吗？有种昆虫一天能把整个澳大利亚啃光两次！
- 天啊！
- 哇喔。
- 希望它们至少被控制在那儿……
我在野外公开来源里见过的最大错误是一个报告的距离有80倍的误差，我估计这至少是经过了三次单位换算以及面积/长度混淆造成的。
