The assembly line has been abandoned, as have economics of scale like buying components in bulk.

装配线曾被废弃，像有标准化的经济那样批量生产。

youdao

Does that mean that solar energy can only be used on a small scale, like heating a home?

这是不是意味着太阳能只能在小范围内使用，比如为家庭供暖？

youdao

It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like full-scale war or economic deprivation.

它反映了这样一个事实：在过去的几十年里，人们的总体生活水平有所提高，并且避免了大规模战争或经济匮乏等大规模社会创伤。

youdao

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

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

Doesn't sound like any scale we've ever heard of.

与我们所听到过的任何音阶都不同

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

On a scale like that, 10 is always better than 1, right?

FORBES: Is Self-Help Really Helpful?

Housing densities tend to be much lower in and around London than in other cities of similar scale like New York, Paris and Tokyo.

ECONOMIST: The south-east

For instance Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt, both of the Santa Fe Institute, found that cities scale much like organisms.

ECONOMIST: Urban research