"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."

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

And so redefining then the temperature scale to the Kelvin scale, where t in degrees Kelvin is equal to t in degree Celsius, plus 273.15.

以K为单位的温度,是以℃为单位的温度,加上273。15度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

Visitors to the Computer History Museum can also see parts of one of the earliest large-scale electronic computing devices.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

These implicitly make a claim to the generality--at the national scale, or in the racial sense-- the representativeness of this life.

而不是一个特定的人,这暗含了一种普遍性，在民族范围内或者在种族意义上来看-,来表现这种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If I could choose the language in which I spoke to you, I would choose to speak in Gaelic, the sliding scale,the sussuration of breath, The sound of water beating between us."

VOA: special.2011.05.09

And so I decided to have a progressive scale that increases according to what you earn like the tax scale.

所以，我决定制定一个累进的捐款标准表,捐款的数量随着收入的增加而增加,就像税率表一样，这个标准表从收入的1%起步。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When asked whether the Congressional Budget Office deficit projections will force Democrats to scale back these and other goals, Pelosi responded.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Remember that these cells are relatively large compared to bacteria and so diffusion doesn't occur very quickly over this length scale.

要知道这些细胞相对细菌而言,还是比较大的,扩散作用在这种尺度上,发生得不是那么快

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He said that a small-scale counterterrorism effort is not a viable alternative to the broader military operation now underway.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

He introduced the concept of electronegativity which was a measure, therefore, it is quantitative, of the atom's ability to attract electrons within a covalent bond and developed a scale of electronegativity.

他引入了电负性这一概念,一个反映着原子在成共价键时吸引电子的能力的数据标度，因此这是数量上的，在共价电子中,电子原子能吸引电子,并发展为一定规模的电负性。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He and others hoped to see large-scale irrigation, reforestation and other projects that would help farmers grow more food.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

And so now, instead of using these reference points for the Kelvin scale, we use the absolute zero, which isn't going to care what the pressure is.

就像理想气体温标,与气体的种类无关一样，具有普适性，在开尔文温标中。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So we are going to be fighting a huge number of technology challenges. Then there is the whole scale issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

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

"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

But what she's working off of here— we're not going to listen to the whole thing-- is this idea of a blues scale.

但她处理这段曲子的方法,我们不是要全部听完,是布鲁斯音阶的理念

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

Right, the first skill we want you to acquire, is we want you to be able to use the basic tools of computational thinking to write small scale programs.

好，我想让你们掌握的第一个技能就是，希望你们能使用,计算思维的基本工具,来编写小规模的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The FAO report points to the growth of large-scale, industrial operations that have pushed some small producers and pastoralists to the margins.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Of course, with large-scale industrialization, which begins in the middle of the eighteenth century, you'll see this dramatic shift up to the north.

当然,随着大规模的工业化,在十八世纪中期的兴起,你会发现北方的戏剧性转变

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

President Medvedev says some military units have already been modernized and he expects large-scale army and navy rearmament to begin in 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

But once we got to the atomic size scale, what happens is we need to be taking into account the fact that matter has these wave-like properties, and we'll learn more about that later, but essentially classical mechanics does not take that into account at all.

但一到到了原子尺度量级，我们必须考虑到物质,这时候有波动性质,关于这点我们今后将会学到更多,但本质上经典力学并,没有考虑这个性质。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

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

"An emergency of a scale different to what we have seen before in the modern era."

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

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

Being a very small part of that, and part of changing our scale from where we constantly see ourselves as the most important thing in the universe, to suddenly being just a tiny piece.

我们只是宇宙的渺小的一员，我们应当改变我们的观念,不应将自己看做是,宇宙中最重要的，我们只是微小的尘埃。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选