The initial quake registered at magnitude 7 on the Richter Scale and was followed by several other shocks, including one that measures 5.9.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

These implicitly make a claim to the generality--at the national scale, or in the racial sense-- the representativeness of this life.

而不是一个特定的人,这暗含了一种普遍性，在民族范围内或者在种族意义上来看-,来表现这种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Romer scale was, Romer was a Dane, and he defined freezing of water at 7.5 degrees Roemer, and 22.5 degrees Romer as blood-warm.

他的罗默温标，定义水的冰点,是7。5，罗默度，温血的温度是22。5，罗默度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"And because small retailers don't have economies of scale to be able to order a lot of merchandise at once, they are not able to negotiate the best prices or offer the best deals to their shoppers."

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

If you took a 15 inch artillery shell moving at the velocity it typically goes at, and take that amount of kinetic energy versus the resistive capacity of a sheet of tissue paper, that's the scale that we're looking at here.

如果你有1个15英寸的炮弹,按照经典的速度移动，会消耗大量的动能,抵抗来自于一张薄纸的阻力，这就是我们在这儿看到的尺度。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And then he, at the top of it-- switched over into a chromatic scale.

然后,在顶端,转换到了半音音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You're going to hear the violins play a running scale, If our beat is this, what note values are in the music of the violinists at this particular moment?

大家待会要听段小提琴演奏连续音阶,如果我们这样打拍子,在这个特定的时间点,这段音乐中小提琴手演奏的时值是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选