1. 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。

2. They are preparing for war on a large scale.
    他们正在大规模地准备战争。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. 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。

6. A recent survey of the effects of noise revealed (surprisingly?) that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7.
    最近一个有关噪音的作用的调查（令人吃惊地）指出，夜间连续不断的狗叫声，在一个从1级至7级刻度表上应列为最严重的噪间污染。

7. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.
    很快这种偏差会增加到尺10英的范围，如此等等，一直到全球的范围。

8. James Cameron of the London News Chronicle, who was in China in 1954, reported even then the pace of building was unbelievable; how four new hospitals, six factories, and eleven full-scale blocks, had been laid out, started and completed in a matter
    一九五四年访问中国的伦敦《新闻纪事报》记者詹姆斯·卡麦隆报导说，当时建设速度之快是难以令人置信的：四家医院，六座工厂和十一个完整的街区仅在数周之内就设计、建造并完工了。

9. Green and white taxis are a step down the scale, but still have meters.
    绿白相间的就低一个档次，但也有计程器。

10. In one English class, the 11 students spend the last five minutes in an energetic exchange evaluating their class performance for the day on a 1-10 scale.
    在一堂英语课上，11名学生用最后的五分钟展开激烈的讨论，依照1-10的评分标准相互评价他们当天的课堂表现。