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正面 6545.scale
英 [skeɪl]美 [skel]

背面
释义:
n. 规模;比例;鳞;刻度;天平;数值范围vi. 衡量;攀登;剥落;生水垢vt. 测量;攀登;刮鳞;依比例决定n. (Scale)人名;(意)斯卡莱
例句:
1. The patient rates the therapies on a scale of zero to ten.患者按十分制给这些治疗方法打分。

1. 音译“马拉松”。公元前490年,一场激烈的战役在位于雅典东北40公里处的村镇——马拉松(Marathon)打响。最终,雅典人在米太亚得的统率下,打败了波斯人。这是一场决定性的战役。通过这场战役,雅典人击退了波斯人的入侵,拯救了希腊,结束了第一次米堤亚战争。为了尽快将胜利的消息告知国人,雅典军队派了一名赛跑运动员回去报信。这名运动员从战场一口气跑到了雅典城。当他到达目的地,刚宣布完胜利的喜讯后,就一头栽倒在地,力竭而死。为了纪念这位勇敢的士兵,人们于19世纪末设立了一个距离为42.195公里的长跑比赛项目并将其命名为“马拉松”。时至今天,马拉松赛跑已成为奥运会的收官项目。
scale 水垢,牙石,秤,天平,鳞片来自古诺斯语 skel,贝壳,skal,碗,饮水容器,来自 Proto-Germanic*skaela,分开,劈开,来自 PIE*skel,砍,切,分开,词源同 shell,scallop.由贝壳引申词义碗,饮水器具,由贝壳的钙化 性质引申词义水垢,牙石,由碗,饮水容器引申词义秤,天平,即秤的原型,由该印欧语的 词根义引申词义鱼鳞,鳞片等。scale 梯子,攀登,攀爬,规模,范围,程度,等级,比例来自拉丁语 scala,梯子,来自(缩写自)scandere,攀爬,攀登,来自 PIE*skand,爬,上升, 词源同 scan,ascend,descend.字母 d 脱落,类似拼写比较 rule,regulate.引申词义规模,范围, 程度,等级,比例等。
scalescale: English has three separate words scale. The oldest, ‘pan of a balance’ [13], was borrowed from Old Norse skál ‘bowl, drinking cup’ (ancestor of Swedish skåal, from which English gets the toast skol [16]). This was descended from a Germanic base *skal-, *skel-, *skul-, denoting ‘split, divide, peel’, which also produced English scalp, shell, shelter, shield, skill, probably skull, and also scale ‘external plate on fish, etc’ [14].This second scale was borrowed from Old French escale, which itself was acquired from prehistoric Germanic *skalō – another derivative of *skal-. Its modern German descendant, schale, is the probable source of English shale [18]. The third scale, which originally meant ‘ladder’ [15], came from Latin scāla ‘ladder’, a descendant of the same base as Latin scandere ‘climb’, from which English gets ascend, descend, scan, and scandal. (In modern French scāla has evolved to échelle, whose derivative échelon has given English echelon [18].) The modern meanings of the word, variations on the theme ‘system of graduations used for measuring’, are metaphorical extensions of the original ‘ladder, steps’.Its use as a verb, meaning ‘climb’, goes back to the medieval Latin derivative scālāre.=> scalp, shell, shelter, shield, skill, skol, skull; shale; ascend, descend, echelon, scan, scandalscale (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" (cognates: Dutch schaal "a scale, husk," Old High German scala "shell," Gothic skalja "tile," Old English scealu "shell, husk"), from PIE root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut, cleave, split" (cognates: Latin culter "knife," scalpere "to cut, scrape;" Old Church Slavonic skolika "mussel, shell," Russian skala "rind, bark," Lithuanian skelti "split," Old English scell "shell," scalu "drinking cup, bowl, scale of a balance"). In reference to humans, as a condition of certain skin diseases, it is attested from c. 1400. As what falls from one's eye when blindness ends (usually figurative), it echoes Acts ix:18 (Latin tanquam squamæ, Greek hosei lepides).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" (cognates: 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" (see scale (n.1)). The connecting sense seems to be of half of a bivalve ("split") shell used as a drinking cup or a pan for weighing. But according to Paulus Diaconus the "drinking cup" sense originated from a supposed custom of making goblets from skulls (see skull). Related: Scales. This, as a name for the zodiac constellation Libra, is attested in English from 1630s.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 (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.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.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."

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