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get even

/ee-vuhn/US // ˈi vən //

扯平,扯平了,拌嘴,偶遇

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : level; flat; smooth; without surface irregularities: an even road.
    • : on the same level; in the same plane or line; parallel: even with the ground.
    • : free from variations or fluctuations; regular: even motion.
    • : uniform in action, character, or quality: to hold an even course.
    • : equal in measure or quantity: Add even amounts of oil and vinegar.
    • : divisible by two, as a number.
    • : denoted by such a number: the even pages of a book.
    • : exactly expressible in integers, or in tens, hundreds, etc., without fractional parts: an even seven miles.
    • : Mathematics. having a sign that remains the same when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time.
    • : equally balanced or divided; equal: Check to see if the scales are even.
    • : leaving no balance of debt on either side; square: We will not be even until I can repay him for saving my life.
    • : calm; placid; not easily excited or angered: an even temper.
    • : equitable, impartial, or fair: an even bargain.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : evenly: The road ran even over the fields.
    • : still; yet: even more suitable.
    • : : Even the slightest noise disturbs him. Even if he attends, he may not participate.
    • : just: Even as he lay dying, they argued over his estate.
    • : fully or quite: even to death.
    • : indeed: He is willing, even eager, to do it.
    • : exactly or precisely: It was even so.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make even; level; smooth: to even a board with a plane.
    • : to place in an even state as to claim or obligation; balance: to even up accounts.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become even: The odds evened before the race.
  1. 1
    • : even out, to make or become even, smooth, or flat: The wrinkles will even out when the suit dries.to become equal, balanced, stable, etc.: optimistic that the situation would even out eventually.

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Examples

  • Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous.

  • This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.

  • Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

  • Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.

  • For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.

  • Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.

  • Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.

  • I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

  • Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.

  • He was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the Goblin.

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