He says that's not fair. "Whether it's gay marriage, whether it's making changes in the community or making changes on a broad scale - if I'm a citizen of the United States, it affects me as well."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

And the reason for the scale is -- that as we saw last week the idea of these algorithms-- I broke the scale already.

之所以要用到它,是因为上周我们讨论的这些算法思想-,我把天平弄坏了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Being a very small part of that, and part of changing our scale from where we constantly see ourselves as the most important thing in the universe, to suddenly being just a tiny piece.

我们只是宇宙的渺小的一员，我们应当改变我们的观念,不应将自己看做是,宇宙中最重要的，我们只是微小的尘埃。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The FAO report says developing countries will need to strengthen disease control regulations, as well as improve environmental controls and minimize the dislocation of small farmers as the livestock industry continuesto grow and concentrate into large-scale enterprises.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Just consider this as a sense of the scale of pro-slavery writing.

权当是对亲奴派作品的范围作个,大概的认识

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21