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scalesskeIlzn [C]pl n, Am scale a device for weighing things or people天平;秤，磅秤He's just moved into a new house and he wants some kitchen and bathroom scales for his birthday.他刚搬进新居，过生日需要一些厨房和浴室用的磅秤。Scales used in hospitals have a raised area on which a person stands while someone weighs them by moving a weight along a horizontal metal bar until the bar balances.(医院里量体重的)磅秤A pair of scales is a weighing device with two containers attached to a metal bar which is free to move up and down about its fixed central point. An object of known weight is placed in one container and the thing to be weighed is placed in the other. When their weights are equal, the scales balance.天平
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