Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

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

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

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 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。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Well, it's around 750, a great number of the changes that moved the Greeks away from the Dark Age kind of society to the full scale polis begin.

在大约公元前七百五十年,发生了许多变化,这些变化将希腊从黑暗时代的社会形态中拽出,进而开始了全面的城邦社会

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

And so in the 1940s, a group of people led by Collier started to develop a large scale production method for making a reliable source of vaccinia virus.

在二十世纪四十年代,科利尔带领一群人开始研究,一种大规模的生产方法,这种方法能制得牛痘病毒的可靠来源

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

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

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

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

Opposition leaders have accused the president of attempting to orchestrate large-scale poll fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

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。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

The UN health agencies say it could cost about $39 billion over the next six years to scale up the recommended measures in the 68 high-risk developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.

尽管每个人的捐款不多，如果在美国，每个人都根据这个标准表捐款，那将会是5000亿美元。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The Obama administration says it is laying the groundwork to develop a vaccine against swine flu, although no decision has been made on large-scale production of such a vaccine.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

You've got to put more pressure on one side than the other if you want to push that gas through the throttle, right? So this is where the time scale issue comes into play.

如果你想让更多的气体通过节流阀,应该使一边的压强,大于另一边，是吗？所以这就是,时间尺度发挥作用的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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