a point on a scale

The point of the story is that the little girl grew up to be a movie star named Marilyn Monroe, and the dream came true on such a preposterous scale that her new wide world has fallen at her feet.

这故事的关键是这个小女孩成长为电影明星, 她的名字叫玛丽莲.梦露, 而且这个梦想在如此不羁的范围里变成了现实, 她的新的广阔的世界已经拜倒在她的脚下.

To find out, the two researchers gave 208 undergraduates a battery of trolleyological tests and measured, on a four-point scale, how utilitarian their responses were.

为了探明这一问题，这两位研究者给208位大学生做了一连串的电车测试并以四探针测试仪那样的精细程度检测他们反应的实用主义程度几何。

Participants were given a survey that is used by psychologists to measure levels of infidelity on a nine-point scale (with nine being highly unfaithful).

受测者先接受第一份调查，心理学家跟据该调查的答复用“1-9分”的等级来测量各人不忠的程度（9表示高度不忠）。