What good were the dazzling, shimmering scales with no one to admire them?

即使有一身让人眼花缭乱的闪光鳞片，却没有人赞美，又有什么用呢？

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The number of IT staff for any business scales with the size of the company.

所有公司的 IT 人员的数量都是随公司大小而变化的。

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It scales with the database, and XML-specific optimizations give it better performance than CLOBs.

它可随数据库进行扩展，并且特定于XML的优化使得它具有比CLOB更好的性能。

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And if you go back into the 1800's when thermodynamics was starting, there were a zillion different temperatures scales Everybody had their own favorite temperature scale The one that we're most familiar with is the centigrade or Celsius scale where mercury was the substance, and the volume of mercury is the property.

如果你回头看看19世纪温度计,刚开始使用的时候，那时有不计其数的不同温标,每个人都有他们自己最喜欢的温标,我们最熟悉的是,摄氏温标，用水银,作为工作物质，水银的体积是所用的性质。

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Those countries already offer much more liberal credit terms to potential importers of their goods, and would quickly take market share from U.S. producers of aircraft if given the opportunity to tip the scales with predatory financing.

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