The sheer scale of the investment it took to begin commercial expansion at sea reflects the immensity of the profits that such East-West trade could create.

在海上进行商业扩张所消耗的投资规模之大，反映了这种东西向贸易所能创造的巨大利润。

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Not only are we bringing about the extinction of life on a vast scale, we are also making the land and the air and the sea so toxic that the very conditions of life are being destroyed.

我们不仅使生物大规模灭绝，还令陆地、空气和海洋含有巨大毒性，从而使生物的生存条件遭到破坏。

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The destruction of the Aral Sea is one of the great engineering disasters of the 20th century, a mistake on a scale so vast that photographs from space are needed to capture it.

咸海的毁灭是二十世纪大型工程灾难，这个失误的规模太大了，只能从太空中捕捉其图片。

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The changes include moving the development further out to sea and making it smaller in scale.

BBC: Navitus Bay wind farm proposals scaled back

In a sense, but only if we cling to a linear scale of intelligence that places sea sponges at the bottom and humans at the top.

WSJ: Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods: The Secret Genius of Dogs

De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea.

FORBES: Anglo American Receives Final Regulatory Approval for De Beers Acquisition