Proportionate
[prə'pɔːʃ(ə)nət] or [prə'pɔrʃənət]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree .
(adj.) being in due proportion; 'proportionate representation of a minority group' .
安德里亚錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.
(v.) To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
哈里特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Proportional.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighbourhood. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The world seemed hardly large enough to yield him an amount of travel proportionate to his equipment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- When full grown the Big Trees are proportionate and symmetrical in girth and height and the beauty of the tree is enhanced by flutings that traverse the bark from the base to the apex. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Its quantity increases so that its proportionate value is very different. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Some of these latter were occupying positions from which they could not render service proportionate to their numerical strength. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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