Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

不论是在动物的历史中何种时候何种环境，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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The full scale of the disaster has yet to sink in.

人们还没有完全意识到这场灾难的严重程度。

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Musical notation was conceived for the C major scale and each line and space represents a note in this scale.

乐谱为C大音阶而构思，在这个音阶中的每一个线和间都代表一个音符。

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If I could choose the language in which I spoke to you, I would choose to speak in Gaelic, the sliding scale,the sussuration of breath, The sound of water beating between us."

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These implicitly make a claim to the generality--at the national scale, or in the racial sense-- the representativeness of this life.

而不是一个特定的人,这暗含了一种普遍性，在民族范围内或者在种族意义上来看-,来表现这种生活。

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But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.

尽管每个人的捐款不多，如果在美国，每个人都根据这个标准表捐款，那将会是5000亿美元。

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An hour runs about 930, 000 points, to give you an idea of the scale in effect here.

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Likewise, investors that tip the scale in favor of guts over brains take on excessive risk without a rational, thought out plan.

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In this way, judicial balancing requires a careful weighing of the government's interests against the individual's, with a thumb on the scale in favor of the individual.

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