There is an automatic mechanism for shifting the recording pen to keep it from going off scale.

有一个自动装置来移动记录笔，使其不致出格。

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A strong earthquake near the instrument will usually displace the reading off scale or may even damage the instrument.

如果在这类仪器的附近发生一次强烈的地震，一般就会使记录出格，甚至可能损坏仪器。

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Newton was a finicky, neurotic, off-scale brilliant character who seemed able to hold a problem in his mind, neither sleeping nor eating, "thinking on it continually," he said, until he'd solved it.

牛顿是一位挑剔细节、性格焦虑，具有偏执狂特征的天才。他看来能一直想问题，不吃不睡，“一直想啊想，”他说，直到问题解决。

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Thanks to its Modernist architecture, which differs drastically from the rest of the city, some locals feel the building is off scale in comparison to the rest of Seville.

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But then, our radiation supervisor switched on the detector in the compartment and it went off the scale.

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But because it was off the scale of everybody's belief system they didn't really come to terms with it.

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