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proportionate

/adjective pruh-pawr-shuh-nit, -pohr-; verb pruh-pawr-shuh-neyt, -pohr-/US // adjective prəˈpɔr ʃə nɪt, -ˈpoʊr-; verb prəˈpɔr ʃəˌneɪt, -ˈpoʊr- //

相称的,适度的,适度,有比例的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pro·por·tion·at·ed, pro·por·tion·at·ing.

    • : to make proportionate.

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Examples

  • The bad news is that, as more kids come down with Covid, the proportionate number who get hospitalized is going up as well.

  • Things that were beautiful were understood to be orderly, in harmony, balanced, proportionate to themselves and generally integrated into a world that was either man-made or served man’s purposes.

  • However, the board then punted back to Facebook, insisting on a “proportionate response.”

  • They see a possibility that if they take the rights steps towards data governance, and later towards AI governance and other digital infrastructures, they can have a proportionate place in the global digital economy.

  • So the industry decided to produce skis that come in shorter lengths and are lighter, softer, and cut differently, to be proportionate to women’s bodies and make for easier turn initiation.

  • By comparison, a proportionate range in a country the size of the United States is 475,000 to 7,473,000.

  • The case against Megaupload might not be proportionate, wise, or able to withstand legal scrutiny.

  • Government spokesman Nasser al-Mana'a insisted the government had no choice but to attack and had used proportionate violence.

  • But this we certainly know: In six days, Israel lost 800 men, roughly proportionate to American losses in the entire Vietnam War.

  • But we routinely base character judgments on actions, confidence being proportionate to the length of the track record.

  • The fundamental equation of the economist, then, is that the value of everything is proportionate to its cost.

  • Are not these legitimate investments in the common stock of the nation, which should command a proportionate interest?

  • But as soon as she had made this great advance, virginal instinct suggested a proportionate retreat.

  • At the start, Mona was in nature proportionate to her size; and when she married she had not loved Crozier as he had loved her.

  • In the Kentish laws provision is made for widows to receive a proportionate share in their husbands' property.