A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
比例
Proportion
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
明智的人把他的信仰与证据结合起来。
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
热与缺乏真正的知识成正比。
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
我们的死亡与我们周围的言语成正比。
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
生命随着一个人的勇气的大小而缩小或扩大。
We must not misinterpret our discomforts into dilemmas.
我们决不能把我们的不适误解成困境。
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
我对设计和比例都很有眼光。
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
我痴迷于比例，以及人们如何看待比例。
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
我们的承诺与我们的希望成正比，我们的承诺与我们的恐惧成正比。
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
火箭科学一直被神话化，与其真正的困难完全不成比例。
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
在小的比例里，我们只是美女;简而言之，生活可能是完美的。
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
在议程任何项目上花费的时间将与所涉及的总数成反比。
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
我的快乐与我的接受成正比，与我的期望成反比。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
通过测量从出生起就与同一父母生活在一起的儿童的比例，以及他们的父母是否报告有良好的质量关系，我们正在向人们传达这样一个信息:社会项目应促进家庭稳定，避免家庭破裂。
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
婚姻生活之所以苦不堪忍，很大程度上是由于疏忽了一些小事。
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
餐馆的价格和食物质量之间的差距与胡椒磨的大小成正比。
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
工业和农业的集中和相互作用共同促进生产力的增长，这种增长在几何上大于在算术上的比例。
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
在古代，威尔士被划分为几乎相等的三个部分，在这一划分中，对价值的考虑要多于对领土数量或比例的考虑。
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
只有做梦的人才能理解现实，尽管事实上，他的梦与他的醒时是不成比例的。