The financial crisis was triggered by a bout of corporate social irresponsibility on a massive scale that has tarnished the reputations of even the bluest of blue-chip companies.

金融危机是由一系列大规模的企业对社会的不负责任引发的，这也败坏了即使是最优秀的蓝筹企业的名声。

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The little blue fish whizzed through the ocean with his scale flashing, so it didn’t take long before the Rainbow Fish was surrounded by the other fish.

小蓝鱼闪动着鳞片在海里这么一游，彩虹鱼立刻就被别的鱼团团围住了。

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About one third of jazz is in blues form with twelve measures4 in a song and USES — blue notes, "the flatted third, fifth, and seventh notes of the musical scale."

大约有三分之一的爵士乐采用蓝调形式，一首歌有12小节，使用“蓝音”，即把第三、五、七个音阶降半音(如c大调的E、G、B)。

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He said previously strikes on this scale were dominated by male, blue-collar workers, such as the miners in the 1980s.

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What's more, Germany's many large blue-chip companies not only have the scale to help them avoid job cuts, they have also been helped by the German government's recent short-term working scheme, in which the state subsidizes worker wages to help firms avoid layoffs.

FORBES: Work

Here, in blue, we've plotted the relative multiple on an inverted scale.

FORBES: The T. Rowe Small-Cap Gauge