A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
比例
Proportion
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。
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。
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
我们不会得到我们所希望得到的，而是我们应得的。我们的报酬将永远与我们的服务成正比。
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。
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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
我对设计和比例都很有眼光。
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
热与缺乏真正的知识成正比。
We must not misinterpret our discomforts into dilemmas.
我们决不能把我们的不适误解成困境。