Proportion

(noun.) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); 'in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance'- John Ruskin.

(noun.) magnitude or extent; 'a building of vast proportions'.

(noun.) the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree; 'an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations'; 'a dry martini has a large proportion of gin'.

(noun.) the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole.

(verb.) adjust in size relative to other things.

(verb.) give pleasant proportions to; 'harmonize a building with those surrounding it'.

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• The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The proportion of the expense of house-rent to the whole expense of living, is different in the different degrees of fortune. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the revenue of all the inhabitants of the country is necessarily in proportion to the value of the annual produce of their land and labour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His abilities, in both these respects, are generally in proportion to the extent of his stock, or to the number of people whom it can employ. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The second, those which it can multiply in proportion to the demand. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Their consumption must increase as their mass increases, or rather in a much greater proportion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The proportion between them, therefore, must remain the same, and cannot well be altered, at least for any considerable time, by any such revolutions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The fact that the oxygen of the air is diluted as it were with so large a proportion of nitrogen, prevents fires from sweeping over the world and destroying everything in their path. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Miss Sedley was not of the sunflower sort; and I say it is out of the rules of all proportion to draw a violet of the size of a double dahlia. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The table stood in the same place, close by the bedside, and on it, in its real proportions and appearance, was the shape so often repeated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Chemical analysis shows oleomargarine to have substantially the same constituents and in almost the identical proportions of pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The proportions between the bank price, the mint price, and the market price of gold bullion, are nearly the same. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His features were very regular and, like the proportions of his graceful limbs and body, beautiful in the extreme. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Methought the apartment only was changed, being of different proportions and dimensions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Thus, there has been initiated the development of a new and important industry whose possible ultimate proportions are beyond the range of present calculation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is not practicable to give a full illustration of the state of the art in typewriters, as it has grown to an industry of large proportions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• As we advanced we found a well-proportioned tunnel cut from the solid cliff. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• This patent has at first an authority, proportioned to the present and immediate authority of reason, from which it is derived. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• His daily subsistence would be proportioned to his daily necessities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He who hath proportioned and given proper quantities to all things, was not unmindful of this. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• For the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need, that I was like a child in his hands. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The produce of every part of the country must be proportioned to the consumption of the neighbourhood. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His well-proportioned figure was not to be mistaken, for I doubt whether there was another in that assemblage his equal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But what a very good-proportioned yard it is! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• These organs are so proportioned in length to each other that half the stamens in two of the forms stand on a level with the stigma of the third form. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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