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规模
Scale
Just scales and full measure injure no man.
天平和秤不能伤人。
If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.
如果你不登那座山，你就看不见平原。
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
生命的本质是大规模的统计非概率。
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
如果我是注定要扭转战局的快乐的凡人，你难道不高兴吗，我的父亲?
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.
钱不是生活中最重要的东西，但它与氧气相当接近。
Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.
大多数情况下，我只对能够吸引数亿用户的创意感兴趣。这就是我一直想要演奏的音阶。
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
在某种程度上，我对如此大规模地引入文明感到遗憾，因为它给了我们很大的空间来互相辱骂，而我们现在仍在这样做。
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
当组成一个系统的力以一种互相补偿的方式排列时，这个系统就处于平衡状态，就像两个砝码拉着一对天平的扶手一样。
So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.
所以我有机会做好时项目的孩子们所做的事，除了好时项目让他们在更大的范围内做这件事，包括地区性和全国性的比赛。
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
如果你把小说作品看作是世界的一种尺度模型，那么积极的价值——事情的结果比你想象的要好——也应该存在于某个地方。
I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.
我从试着去找工作，突然间在接下来的几年里，我和一些业内最优秀的人，包括演员和导演，签订了某种规模的合同。那是个梦。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.
进行大规模研究的最好方法是确保每个人都知道其他人在做什么……越快越好——开始和别人谈论你正在做的事情。因为这是最快的刺激。