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proportionable

/pruh-pawr-shuh-nuh-buhl, -pohr-/US // prəˈpɔr ʃə nə bəl, -ˈpoʊr- //

适度的,适度,成比例的,按比例

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being in due proportion; proportional.

Examples

  • We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

  • These sentences have, I hear, given offence in my native town, and a proportionable pleasure to our rivals of Glasgow.

  • The inhabitants of Magnesia, under Mount Sipylus, were held the next in sufferings, and had proportionable relief.

  • Upon small offences he bestowed pardon; for such as were great he exercised proportionable severity.

  • I expect measure hard enough and must furnish apace with proportionable armour.