scale，英语单词，主要用作名词、动词、形容词。作名词时意为“天平，磅秤；天平盘；天秤；等级，级别；刻度，标度；标尺，刻度尺；规模，范围”，作动词时意为“改变尺寸大小；刮去；攀登，翻越；剔除”，作形容词时意为“按比例缩小的”等。

英 [skeɪl] 美 [skeɪl]

n. 天平，磅秤；天平盘；天秤（星）座（the Scales）；等级，级别；刻度，标度；标尺，刻度尺；规模，范围；比例，比例尺；鳞，鳞片；鱼鳞状物；水垢；牙垢；音阶；（加热后金属上形成的）氧化皮；进位制；（摄影）影调范围

v. 改变（文字、图片）的尺寸大小；刮去（鱼鳞）；攀登，翻越；剔除（牙垢）；（尤指皮肤）生成鳞屑；（成片状）脱落，剥落；（数量，财产） 按一定比例调节；称得重量为；<美>估算（树木的）产木材量

adj. （模型或复制品）按比例缩小的

【名】 (Scale)（意）斯卡莱（人名）

[ 复数 scales 第三人称单数 scales 现在分词 scaling 过去式 scaled 过去分词 scaled ]

柯林斯英汉双解大词典

scale /skeɪl/ CET4 TEM4 ( scaling, scaled, scales )

1.N-SING If you refer to the scale of something, you are referring to its size or extent, especially when it is very big. 规模; 范围

2.→ see also full-scale, large-scale, small-scale

3.N-COUNT A scale is a set of levels or numbers which are used in a particular system of measuring things or are used when comparing things. 等级

4.→ see also timescale

5.N-COUNT A pay scale or scale of fees is a list that shows how much someone should be paid, depending, for example, on their age or what work they do. 工资级别

6.N-COUNT The scale of a map, plan, or model is the relationship between the size of something in the map, plan, or model and its size in the real world. 比例尺

7.N-COUNT the notation of a given number system 进位制 [maths]

8.→ see also full-scale, large-scale

9.ADJ A scale model or scale replica of a building or object is a model of it which is smaller than the real thing but has all the same parts and features. 按比例缩小的 [ADJ n]

10.N-COUNT In music, a scale is a fixed sequence of musical notes, each one higher than the next, which begins at a particular note. 音阶

11.N-COUNT The scales of a fish or reptile are the small, flat pieces of hard skin that cover its body. 鳞

12.N-COUNT A scale is a piece of equipment used for weighing things, for example, for weighing amounts of food that you need in order to make a particular meal. 秤 [usu pl]

13.V-T If you scale something such as a mountain or a wall, you climb up it or over it. 攀登 [书面]

14.V-T to remove the scales or coating from 刮掉···的鳞片; 去掉···的涂层

15.V-T to weigh with or as if with scales (似)用天平称重

16.PHRASE If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them. 与…不成比例; 与…不相称

17.PHRASE If the different parts of a map, drawing, or model are to scale, they are the right size in relation to each other. 按比例

large scale 大规模的；大型的

on a large scale 大规模地

small scale 小规模；小比例尺

production scale 生产规模

full scale 全尺寸；原大的；完全的；全刻度的；满量程

in scale 依比例

on the scale of 按…的比例；以…的规模

economies of scale 规模经济

time scale 时标；调时制

industrial scale 工业规模

scale economy 规模经济

scale effect 规模效应；放缩效应

big scale 大规模

gray scale 灰度；灰阶

scale model 成比例模型；相似模型

on a scale 在某个规模；在…规模上

scale up 按比例放大；按比例增加

medium scale 平均比例尺；中等规模（的）；中间尺度

richter scale 里氏震级

laboratory scale 实验室规模