board foot

基本解释

Now a choice Brazilian Set for one guitar can command a hundred dollars or more: hardly a single board foot in volume.
现在一组经过精选可以作吉他用的玫瑰木，可以喊价到一百美金甚至更贵的价钱：但很难得体积超过一个板英呎。
Prices for hemlock logs destined for sawmills in the U. S. Northwest jumped 43% to $66 a board foot in 2010 from $46 in 2009, according to Wood Resources.
运往美国中西部锯木厂的铁杉原木，已从2009年每板英尺46美元上涨到2010年的66美元，涨幅达43%。
Kids see that list of colleges every time they walk by the guidance office: It's written on a 10-foot board to give students inspiration, the school's director says.
孩子们每天都经过列表上列出的大学的保卫办公室。这被写在了一块10英尺的板上以便给学生鼓励，学校的主人说。

They're so convoluted and measurement defying, they're often sold by the pound instead of board foot.
NPR: Excerpt: 'A Splintered History Of Wood'
If another winter passes, more than half the original value of the logs--pegged at 10 cents a board foot--will have been lost.
FORBES: Hug a Dead Tree Today
Last January Coca-Cola started airing an ad for Sprite featuring skaters doing some gnarly tricks, such as the "frontside frontfoot impossible" (skater jumps up 2 feet or more and wraps board around front foot) and the "540 backside grab" (involves spinning body 1 times in the air, and grabbing board behind leg).
FORBES: Later, Skater

a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick