If you spend all of your time on school grounds, then it becomes too easy for the criticism from an occasional unkind professor or the conflict with a roommate to take on a monstrous scale.

如果你把所有的时间都花费在校园里，你可能就很容易招致不友善教授的偶尔的批评或与室友在很大的范围内存在冲突。

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These house some of the big investment banks, usually foreign-owned, which trade shares, bonds, currencies and derivatives on a scale that would have made an old-school City gent choke on his lunch.

这些建筑中有些是大的投行，通常是外资所有，他们交易股票、债券、货币和金融衍生物，而规模之大，能让一个传统都市绅士被他的午餐噎住。

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They discovered that the very low birth-weight children scored consistently lower scores on a scale designed to measure quality of life among pre-school children.

在针对学龄前儿童生活质量设计的量表中，研究人员发现极低出生体重的儿童均获得相对较低的分数。

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Today, less than 30 percent of students in the bottom of the income scale enroll in a four-year school, and of those less than half graduate.

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The resulting contract, signed in fall 2009, garnered national attention for its brevity, just 10 pages, and its establishment of a merit-based pay scale instead of guaranteed annual pay raises, prompting charter school administrators to issue a press release.

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At the less traditional end of the scale was a lecture this month at the UK's Judge Business School, part of Cambridge University, one of a series intended to explore the crossover between commerce and culture.

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