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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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to be scaled to sth

0I have looked up in many online dictionary but I haven't found out the meaning of this phrase. I have to translate a document which contains this word.Could you please help me?02br
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00...' Age- related changes in power are about 6% to 11% per decade for absolute power and, if 01u00scaled to02u00 body size or mass( relative power) , about 6% to 8% per decade.'....02br
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00By the way, what does 'optimal_ager' mean?0-
  

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0To scale something is to make it proportional for its size. When you are looking at a map, it will sometimes say 1cm = 10 km. 0-

— Vorpar

  • 0To scale something is to make it proportional for its size.
  • When you are looking at a map, it will sometimes say 1cm = 10 km.
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0To scale something is to make it proportional for its size. When you are looking at a map, it will sometimes say 1cm = 10 km. That is the map's scale.02br
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00Optimal = best.0-
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0So in this context, relative power means: the power divide to body mass doesn't it? I thought the phrase ' to be scaled to' is somewhat different from scale itself02br
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00I know optimal means. the best, but can I translate ' optimal ager' to ' best old men'?0-
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0 I think it probably means the people who age 'best' in the sense of being healthy/keeping a good proportion of body strength. I wouldn't quite phrase it as 'best old men'. 0-
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0I think the verb is "to scale to", and it means to scale to some ratio in particular.02br
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00I made a map to scale.02br
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00To what scale did you make it?02br
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00I scaled it 1" to 10 miles.02br
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00So, you scaled the map inches to miles at a ratio of 1 inch
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