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

VOA: special.2010.08.24

It turns out the U.S. and Jamaica are the only two places on Earth now that use the Fahrenheit scale.

事实上现在地球上,只有美国和牙买加这两个国家,还在使用华氏温标。

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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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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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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。

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So, we end up here within an octave-- we end up with twelve equal pitches, but we still use this term a 'seven-note scale' because we have seven notes within the scale of the major scale and seven notes within the scale of the minor scale.

因此,我们在一个八度内,最终得到等量划分的十二个音高,但是我们始终称之为"七音音阶",因为在大调音阶上有七个音符,在小调音阶上也有七个

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