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

Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And so I repeat, and so I repeat and one of the visuals meant to be conveyed by this-- this scale here is now I know that this guy is the smallest.

一次又一次地重复这样的比较,这个天平在此传达的信息是,我知道了这个杯子是最轻的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

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

Right now, a scale is one of the only ways to monitor patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

And if you go back into the 1800's when thermodynamics was starting, there were a zillion different temperatures scales Everybody had their own favorite temperature scale The one that we're most familiar with is the centigrade or Celsius scale where mercury was the substance, and the volume of mercury is the property.

如果你回头看看19世纪温度计,刚开始使用的时候，那时有不计其数的不同温标,每个人都有他们自己最喜欢的温标,我们最熟悉的是,摄氏温标，用水银,作为工作物质，水银的体积是所用的性质。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

So, what's one over R to the 8th going to look like on this scale?

所以R分之一的8次方,在这种情况下会是什么样？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Declarations,commitments and speeches don't feed hungry people, He says the scale of the challenge is significant. There are more than one billion poor and hungry people in the world today.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

So this is a little scale that if you put something here or here it's supposed to tell you which one is heavier and I also have 8 cups here.

这是一个小天平，如果你在这边,或者这边放一些东西，它就会显示哪边的更重,我这有8个杯子。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"No one has ever done it on that scale before.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

And we can we can do this in principle except for one important detail, which is that enthalpy just like energy u isn't measured on an absolute scale but on a relative scale, right?

除了一个重要的细节,就像能量U一样，它不是,以绝对标度度量的,而是以相对标度度量的，对吧？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This has been the situation in the Congo for many years." One of the reports focuses on the actions of government forces, some of whom engaged in large-scale pillaging, arbitrary killings and sexual violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The flu outbreak is starting to affect the tourism industry, with one major airline announcing plans to scale back services between Australia and Japan by one-third because of a slump in demand from Japanese passengers.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30