"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

So we can build triads on each of the members of the scale, and we said that some of these chords tend to be used a lot more than others, that the tonic is very important, the dominant is important, the sub-dominant right next to and below the dominant is important, and we're going to be talking about the VI chord today.

那么我们能够在音阶的各个音上建立三和弦，而且我们说过有些和弦将会比其它的运用更为普遍，基音，I和弦，属音，V和弦，都很重要，紧靠属音的下属音也很重要，我们今天就要讲讲VI和弦。

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The Obama administration says it is laying the groundwork to develop a vaccine against swine flu, although no decision has been made on large-scale production of such a vaccine.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

The Cape Verdean government has taken steps in recent years to promote foreign investment in tourism infrastructure, resulting in large scale development on a few of the ten principal islands.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"We hope to shine the light brightly on the scope and scale of modern slavery so all governments can see where progress has been made and where more is needed,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

It said the global community needed to be as serious about committing resources "on the same scale" to combating global warming as countries were during the the rescue of global economies during the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01