Disproportion
[dɪsprə'pɔːʃ(ə)n] or [,dɪsprə'pɔrʃən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
(n.) Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.
(v. t.) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
編輯:纽曼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Want of symmetry.[2]. Disparity, inequality, unsuitableness.
珍手打
同義詞及反義詞：
[See PROPORTION]
整理:莫顿
解釋/意思:
n. want of proportion symmetry or suitableness of parts: inequality.—v.t. to make unsuitable in form or size &c.—n. Dispropor′tionableness.—adv. Dispropor′tionably.—adjs. Dispropor′tional Dispropor′tionable (arch.).—advs. Dispropor′tionally Dispropor′tionably (arch.).—adj. Dispropor′tionate not proportioned: unsymmetrical: unsuitable to something else in some respect.—adv. Dispropor′tionately.—n. Dispropor′tionateness.
伊内兹手打
例句/造句/用法:
- The thought of our own times has not out-stripped language; a want of Plato's 'art of measuring' is the rule cause of the disproportion between them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And once more, the inharmonious and unseemly nature can only tend to disproportion? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The disproportion would have been too great between the value of the accessory and that of the principal. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And do you consider truth to be akin to proportion or to disproportion? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It may, indeed, be thought, that the greater the disproportion is, the greater must be the uneasiness from the comparison. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
艾伦校對