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proportionately

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

按比例,相称,相称于,比例

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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

  • And the middle class is proportionately smaller and has shrunk more than elsewhere.

  • Rhode Island is the only state voting Tuesday where the delegates will be awarded proportionately.

  • In a state that allocates delegates proportionately, every vote will count.

  • Perhaps worst of all—Muslim Europeans, proportionately speaking, take religion seriously.

  • We had plenty of white problems, but proportionately we had more disciplinary problems with blacks.

  • The Sergeant stared at him hard, saw that both he and his friend wore evening dress, and grew proportionately respectful.

  • Such a contrivance helps to improve the leeway of so shallow a boat, although not proportionately to the area immersed.

  • In the neighbourhood of Lyons, the land lets high, and therefore sells proportionately.

  • This line style, whose world is not the wall or the canvas, but white paper, can do with a proportionately meagre study of nature.

  • This latter deficiency was made up by a voluminous cravat, tied with proportionately large bows.