Earlier Friday, BP's incoming CEO Bob Dudley, said it is time to scale down the vast operation to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he stressed his company's commitment to fully restore the environment.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

And the temperature scale that turns out to be well-defined and ends up giving us the concept of an absolute zero is the ideal gas thermometer.

比如理想气体温标,它有精确的定义,并能引出绝对零度的概念,今天我们就先来谈谈它。

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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

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How do you scale this whole thing up to a billion people," The project's main aim is to help improve the delivery of inefficient public services and cut corruption, which the government admits results in siphoning off benefits intended for the underprivileged.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

You can take a problem that might be relatively intuitive to solve but when you scale this thing up as is increasingly the case in the web, in large data systems, and so forth, you actually have to now think smart, you actually have to think efficiently and you have to solve this problem effectively.

你可以把一个问题用比较直观的方法解决,但如果你把此类问题的数量增大,正如越来越多的互联网，和大规模数据系统中出现的问题等等,你应该考虑怎样才能更简便，怎样才能更高效,你应该用行之有效的方法处理问题。

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"What we are seeing is that the aid effort is beginning to scale up. We are all frustrated by the fact that there is not as much aid on the streets as anybody would like, but I think you will see that effort scaling up very rapidly,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

"We need to scale up our efforts delivered in Haiti, but we also need to ensure that children all over the world in the Horn of Africa, in Afghanistan,in Pakistan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Sudan,in Chad all these children actually deserve and have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.04