Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

So, it's Newtonian mechanics, and the reason for this is because Newtonian mechanics does not work on this very, very small size scale.

牛顿力学，因为牛顿力学,在这种很小的尺度下不适用,我们说过，牛顿力学。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

in order to be able to distribute it on a mass scale. You needed a company of, with a lot of capital,

为了能够大规模发行。你需要一个有很多资金的公司，

音乐市场的变化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

It turns out the U.S. and Jamaica are the only two places on Earth now that use the Fahrenheit scale.

事实上现在地球上,只有美国和牙买加这两个国家,还在使用华氏温标。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

They measure tornadoes on the Enhanced Fujita scale or the EF scale.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

This was a process that was perfected on an industrial scale by the company Genentech in California, in the 1970s.

这就是一个完美的工业规模的流程,是加州的一个基因技术公司在七十年代,所完成的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"On a scale of ten, I would rate it at eight."

VOA: special.2010.06.14

0 So on a scale of 1 to 10, how big a mistake was it that they let Lehman go?

那么假定从1到,让雷曼兄弟破产的决定是多大的错误？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

There are six levels on the Fujita scale.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

So again this is on a viola so it has a deeper, darker timbre than a violin but here's a scale.

对于中提琴来说,它有着比小提琴更为深沉的音色,现在为你们演奏音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They measure tornadoes on the Fujita scale.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

And I don't have to worry about these relative dimensions because we know from Marsden's calculations that, on the length scale that I have shown here, these would be just tiny little dots.

我们不必考虑,它们的相对大小,因为从马斯登的计算中我们可以得知，就从我现在给你们演示的这种相对距离来说，这些电子将只是一些很微小的斑点。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

GCARD is first hearing from senior policymakers from governments, international aid agencies and others on the scale of agricultural investment needed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

So this is, first of all, even just on an absolute scale, this is way, way larger than the wavelengths we're talking about for baseball.

首先，即使在一个绝对标度下，棒球的尺寸也,远远地大于它的波长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Scott Campbell,the chief of the African Section of the U.N.Human Rights Office, says these atrocities are committed on a massive scale.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

It doesn't work so easily to share with those people along the lines that these communities--I think these communes tend to emphasize a social compact, a feeling for each other, a caring for each other, which is a lovely thought but it doesn't achieve risk management on a big scale.

但要实现跟满足这些条件的人分摊风险,绝非易事,这些共同体。。。我指这些公社,倾向于强调一种社会凝聚力，一种人与人的深情和关怀，这个想法听上去很美,但无法实现大规模有成效的风险管理。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"On the directive of the government, the army is now in full scale operation to eliminate,militants,miscreants and anti-state elements from Swat,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Hanson says and I'm quoting him, "The real beginning in the West of individual property holding on a large scale is what he is describing."

我引述汉森说的话,他所描述的是西方私有财产,广泛存在的真正开始

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"There was an extraordinary embrace of the entire city of the Olympic Games, something I have never seen on this scale before.".

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

They're not bad, bad, they're not nightmares, but most dreams are from a scale of one to ten with five and a half in the middle they're on the negative side.

说它们不好，并不是说它们是噩梦，如果用1到10来评分,5。5为中间分值,大部份梦都是在5。5分以下。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Israel,which launched a full-scale assault on Gaza says its blockade aims to weaken Hamas militants who have fired rockets at Israeli towns.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Mythologies are the lives or tales of the lives of gods, tales of the lives of the gods. In pagan religions the gods are born, and they live lives very similar to human lives but on a grand scale and then they die. They might be reborn too.

神话记载了众神的生活故事，众神的一生，在异教里，神是受孕而生的，他们群居，并且生活习惯和人类非常相似,他们也会死亡，也许还会重生。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The U.N.data also reportedly shows fraud in favor of candidate Abdullah Abdullah, but on a much smaller scale.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

It's the sort of thing that we can put on a scale and prod with a stick and the biologists can study, presumably made up of various kinds of molecules, atoms and so forth. So we've got the body.

这是一种我们可以称重,可被棍打,可被生物学家研究的东西,想必是由不计其数的分子,原子等构成,于是我们有了肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

But,basically the State was winning the battle against the nobles, and you could still be the Count of anywhere,or the Duke of anywhere, and you can't mobilize goodies to give to local people except on a very local scale.

不过,总体上这个国家还是战胜了贵族,而且你仍可以当任何地方的伯爵或公爵,你不能把任意调集物资,给当地人,除非是地方标准之下

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Clinton says Washington is opening new business development centers and is working on a virtual entrepreneur network to link small-scale enterprises on line.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The reason that we hear these as distinctly different, I think, happens rather early on in the scale.

我们觉得它们如此截然不同的原因,我看早在音阶中就出现了

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So, this temperature, this absolute zero here, which is absolute zero on the Kelvin scale.

在负无穷处，现在把绝对零度定义为，开尔文温标中的0度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选