"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 the important point is that when people anticipate loss, we didn't see the same scale of activation in this region.

重要的是，当人们预计会亏钱时，我们在这一区域并没有看到之前的那种活动。

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I don't think I want to be in politics, probably more at a small scale level.

我想我不会参政，我喜欢小范围内的活动。

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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

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We also have scales in the chromatic mode and that's when we don't have just seven pitches within the scale.

我们也了解了半音调式中的音阶,也就是没有正好七个音高的,那种音阶

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And I don't have to worry about these relative dimensions because we know from Marsden's calculations that, on the length scale that I have shown here, these would be just tiny little dots.

我们不必考虑,它们的相对大小,因为从马斯登的计算中我们可以得知，就从我现在给你们演示的这种相对距离来说，这些电子将只是一些很微小的斑点。

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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。

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So next year don't pick up the scale.

明年我不会再带天平来了。

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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

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It doesn't work so easily to share with those people along the lines that these communities--I think these communes tend to emphasize a social compact, a feeling for each other, a caring for each other, which is a lovely thought but it doesn't achieve risk management on a big scale.

但要实现跟满足这些条件的人分摊风险,绝非易事,这些共同体。。。我指这些公社,倾向于强调一种社会凝聚力，一种人与人的深情和关怀，这个想法听上去很美,但无法实现大规模有成效的风险管理。

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And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.

作为Facebook的领导者，马克始终坚持选人标准，从不手软，他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为，如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。

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Intensive properties don't care about the scale of your system.

强度量与系统的规模,没有关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Doesn't sound like any scale we've ever heard of.

与我们所听到过的任何音阶都不同

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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。

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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？

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Now I won't bother with the scale anymore.

现在我再也不想用天平了。

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