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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The projection starts off at Planck scale lengths at the Universe’s event horizon, but its projection becomes blurry in our local space-time.

宇宙视界的投射发生于普朗克尺度，所以在我们所在的时空尺度上，这一投射发生了模糊。

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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.

BBC: Seville's threatened architectural heritage

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.

BBC: UK