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

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

"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

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

There are six levels on the Fujita scale.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

So, we need a new kind of mechanics, which is quantum mechanics, which will accurately explain the behavior of molecules on this small scale.

所以我们需要一种新的力学，也就是量子力学,来解释在这个,小尺度下分子的行为。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They measure tornadoes on the Fujita scale.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

So the government intervene on a massive scale.

所以政府进行了大规模的干预。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

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

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 military is expected to launch a full-scale assault on Taliban militants in the region bordering Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

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 measures 5.9.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

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

"If you see a number of scores on a hundred point scale on the 40,50,60 range that suggests that people are moving back and forth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

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

But it has taken on new urgency,coming one day after the World Health Organization raised its global swine flu alert to Phase 4 on the six-point scale.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Last time we worked through this idea of the scale and how you can build triads on each of the members of the scale.

上节课我们已经讨论过音阶中的这个概念,以及你们怎样才能在音阶的各个音上组建起三和弦。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

She says a four-year scientific study initiated by the World Bank says there is little role for genetic modification in feeding the poor on a large scale.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

We in the west have settled on a seven-note scale.

西方已经固定在七音符音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So, then we'll get to turn to a new kind of mechanics or quantum mechanics, which will in fact be able to describe what's happening on this very, very small size scale -- so on the atomic size scale on the order of nanometers or angstroms, very small particles.

然后我们要讲到一种,新的力学--量子力学,它可以解释,发生在很小尺度,大约是原子尺寸大小,也就是纳米或埃的量级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选