What is clearly happening inside this glass capsule is happening less clearly at a great scale on Earth in the closing years of this millennium.

这个太空玻璃实验舱里正在真真切切发生的事情，在这个千禧年末的几年里，将会在地球上大规模地上演，但不会如此真切地上演。

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For one thing, not every great idea that works in a lab can be replicated on a mass production scale.

一方面，实验室的伟大构想不一定可在大规模生产中应用。

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Now, it needs to prove that it can sell great cars on a scale that will make the company profitable.

现在，这家公司得证明它能大批销售这种非凡的车，让公司盈利。

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"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

"We give them a huge market here, and on top of that if cars can be exported, there are great economies of scale, achieved in Thailand for example something that could not be where the domestic market is really small."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

And there, on a very small scale, is how great customer service contributes to the organic growth of a business.

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The same thing happened on a smaller scale during the Great Recession.

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The bigger question is how great is it on a global scale?

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