"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."

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And I suggest a scale that people might use in order to decide how much is enough.

我也建议了一种捐款标准表,来帮助人们决定捐多少钱比较合适。

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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，

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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。

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