A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
尺度
Scales
I've never been much for theory and scales.
我从来不喜欢理论和尺度。
Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
当你踩在秤上时，自我欺骗会让你的胃收缩。
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
我们所受的伤害和我们所受的伤害很少用同样的尺度来衡量。
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
我错过了我的少年时代。我过着受庇护的生活。我在练习音阶而不是踢足球。
We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.
我们将削减项目，我们将努力控制官僚机构的规模。我们将使被过分夸大的联邦工资标准与市场利率保持一致。
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
这本书给了我工具，就像我学习普通音阶或字母表时所拥有的工具一样。如果你给我工具，语法，语法，它仍然没有告诉我怎么写尤利西斯。