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
- : 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.
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