Mark Twain, which means watermark two, was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi, to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water.

“马克·吐温”的原意是“（吃水）刻度二”，为防止水手进入浅水区，密西西河上的船员会使用这个词。

He made the screws, the springs and the levers, the pallets and gears, the hands and the plain, often numberless dials.

表的每一部分都是由他亲手作，没有使用任何外来的零件——螺钉、弹簧、杠、和齿轮、指针以及简洁但是有无数刻度的钟面。

They saw that the cooks had to check and recheck the contents, because although the measuring cups had numbers inside them the cooks couldn't see these easily.

他们发现厨师们要反复检查量杯里的东西，因为虽然这些量杯内部都有刻度，但是却无法轻易看见它们。

’The hands moved slowly round the clock dial. ’

“这双手沿着钟表刻度缓慢移动。”

Hope you like reading the metric system.

希望你喜欢读公（刻度）。

In 1724, Fahrenheit formalized that scale and was inducted into the British Royal Society, where his system was a big hit.

在 1724 年，物理学家华伦海特正式使用了这些刻度，并且该刻度也被引入了英国皇家学院，这是华氏系统的一大成功。

Herbert worked away until he had made the beam and the post.

赫伯特一直在弄，直到把秤和刻度做好。

Now I have to decide what scale to put on these axes.

现在我必须决定在这些轴上放置例刻度。

The radio's dial twirled and the lights behind the tuning panel went out.

广播的刻度转动起来，面板背后的光也熄灭了。

New park benches will include scales that capture a sitting person's weight.

公园这种标有刻度的新长椅可以测量坐在上面人的体重。

One of its arms dipped slightly, and a light glowed in a dial.

它的一只胳膊稍稍向下垂了垂，刻度上的一盏灯亮了。

You can kind of see the scale on the side.

您可以在侧面看到刻度。

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。

From Terra's perspective, her path will simply be a vertical line, with distance equal to zero and each tick on the line equivalent to a year as she perceives it.

从特拉的角度看，她的轨迹是一条垂直线，距离为零，并且直线上的每个刻度相当于她所感知的一年。

Scientists love to put big booms on a scale and came up with a logarithmic scale that measures the volume ejected during an eruption: The Volcanic Explosivity Index, or VEI.

科学家们喜欢把大爆发放在一个刻度上，并提出了一个对数刻度来测量火山喷发期间所喷出的体积：火山爆发指数，又称VEI。

In 1956, he wrote that satellites " could make possible a position-finding grid whereby anyone could locate himself by means of a couple of dials on an instrument about the size of a watch."

1956年，他写道，卫星“可能使定位网格成为可能”，这样，任何人都可以通过手表大小的仪器上的两个刻度来确定自己的位置。”

For me, much as I enjoy these things, lately I've been noticing that the levels in my bottles are going down faster than they used to - and honestly that's a bit unsettling.

对我来说，虽然我很喜欢这些酒，但最近我注意到酒瓶刻度以前下降得快——老实说，有点令人担忧。

You'll see this dial up here to show you how rude or how polite the expression is all the way through this video, all right?

大家可以看到这边的刻度，它在视频全程都会展示某个表达是有多地粗鲁，或者是多地礼貌，好吗？

The decibel scale is what's used to measure the loudness of a sound and it's important to note that the scale is logarithmic.

分贝刻度是用来测量声音的响度的，而且重要的是要注意这个分贝刻度表呈对数曲线。

“Well, now — Mr. Potter. Let me see.” He pulled a long tape measure with silver markings out of his pocket.

“好了，波特先生，来吧。让我看看。”他从衣袋里掏出一长条印有银色刻度的卷尺。