1. Every summer about a dozen journalists gather at a former army training camp north of London to spend the day watching the training of London's special armed police unit. 每年夏天,总有大约十几名记者聚集在伦敦北部的一个旧军训营,用一整天来观看伦敦特警部队的训练。
2. Within seconds, a small display unit on the checker´s right shows the name and price of the item; at the same time this information is printed on a strip of paper. 瞬间功夫,在收款员右手的一个小型显示器上就显示出商品名称、价格,同时这些信息就印在了一张长纸条上。
3. We had money to cover small purchases, and, apart from wearing down-scale clothing, we did nothing in any of these settings to draw attention to ourselves; we merely shopped quietly in our accustomed manner. 我们身上带有支付小金额货物的钱,而且除了穿低挡衣服外,我们没有在上述任何环境里做过任何吸引他人来注意我们的事;我们仅仅是以我们习惯的方式在静静地购物。
4. The gram is a metric unit. 克是公制单位。
5. They are preparing for war on a large scale. 他们正在大规模地准备战争。
6. The metre is a unit of length. 米是长度单位.
7. Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. 就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样,有时乱子会闹得很大。
8. As soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, 一旦你想到你和某一团体会因为你输而丢脸时,
9. And then on to the upper-scale stores and coffee shops during the lunch hour. 然后我们又到了几家高档商店,吃午饭的时候又去了几家咖啡馆。
10. Announced Thursday that it would sustain a net financial loss of unpredictable scale in its first financial year. 该公司星期四称在首个财政年度里公司将继续蒙受难以预料的净亏损。