scale
scale 英 [skeɪl] 美 [skel]
n. 规模；等级，刻度，比例；鳞(刻度密如鳞)；刻度；秤 v. 攀登； 改变大小
进行时:scaling 过去式:scaled 过去分词:scaled 第三人称单数:scales 名词复数:scales
- A scale is a series that climbs up or down. Think of scaling, or climbing, a mountain; a musical scale: do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do; or a scale you weigh yourself on––it counts up the pounds one after another after another.
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- n. 规模；等级，刻度，比例；鳞(刻度密如鳞)；刻度；秤
- v. 攀登； 改变大小
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1. They entertain on a large scale .
他们大宴宾客。
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2. Here was corruption on a grand scale.
这里的腐败现象曾十分严重。
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3. On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.
全球 77% 的能量产生自矿物燃料。
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4. It was impossible to comprehend the full scale of the disaster.
这场灾难的深重程度当时还无法充分认识。
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5. to evaluate performance on a scale from 1 to 10
按 1 到 10 级来评估成绩
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6. At the other end of the scale,life is a constant struggle to get enough to eat.
对于处在社会最底层的人来说，生活就是不断地在温饱线上挣扎求存。
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7. How much does it read on the scale?
刻度显示的是多少？
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8. a scale of 1:25 000
*1:25 000 的比例
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9. kitchen scales, weighing scales
厨房用秤；秤
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10. a scale model, a scale drawing
按比例缩放的模型╱图画
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11. the first woman to scale Mount Everest
第一位登上珠穆朗玛峰的女性
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12. He has scaled the heightsof his profession.
他登上了他事业的顶峰。
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13. The dentist scaled and polished my teeth.
牙医为我刮除牙石，抛光了牙齿。
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14. Text can be scaled from 4 points to 108 points without any loss of quality.
字体的大小可以从 4 点调到 108 点，但印刷质量丝毫不会降低。
- scale (n.1) "skin plates on fish or snakes," c. 1300, from Old French escale "cup, scale, shell pod, husk" (12c., Modern French écale) "scale, husk," from Frankish *skala or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *skælo "split, divide" (source also of Dutch schaal "a scale, husk," Old High German scala "shell," Gothic skalja "tile," Old English scealu "shell, husk"), from PIE root *skel- (1) "to cut."
- scale (n.2) weighing instrument, early 15c.; earlier "pan of a balance" (late 14c.); earlier still "drinking cup" (c. 1200), from Old Norse skal "bowl, drinking cup," in plural, "weighing scale" from a noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *skæla "split, divide" (source also of Old Norse skel "shell," Old English scealu, Old Saxon skala "a bowl (to drink from)," Old High German scala, German Schale "a bowl, dish, cup," Middle Dutch scale, Dutch schaal "drinking cup, bowl, shell, scale of a balance"), from PIE root *skel- (1) "to cut."
- scale (n.3) "series of registering marks to measure by; marks laid down to determine distance along a line," late 14c., from Latin scala "ladder, staircase" (see scale (v.1)). Meaning "succession or series of steps" is from c. 1600; that of "standard for estimation" (large scale, small scale, etc.) is from 1620s. Musical sense (1590s), and the meaning "proportion of a representation to the actual object" (1660s) are via Italian scala, from Latin scala.
- scale (v.1) "to climb by or as by a ladder," late 14c., from scale (n.) "a ladder," from Latin scala "ladder, flight of stairs," from *scansla, from stem of scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). Related: Scaled; scaling.
- scale (v.2) "remove the scales of (a fish, etc.)," c. 1400, from scale (n.1). Intransitive sense "to come off in scales" is from 1520s. Related: Scaled; scaling.
- scale (v.3) "weigh in scales," 1690s, from scale (n.2). Earlier "to compare, estimate" (c. 1600). Meaning "measure or regulate by a scale" is from 1798, from scale (n.3); that of "weigh out in proper quantities" is from 1841. Scale down "reduce proportionately" is attested from 1887. Scale factor is from 1948. Related: Scaled; scaling.
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