:having a size, number, or amount that is directly related to or appropriate for something成比例的
If you increase the size of the picture, keep the length and width proportional. [=increase the length and width by the same percentage so that they are related to each other in the same way]如果要放大照片的话,长和宽要成比例放大。
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Keep the length proportional to the width.长和宽要成比例。
Your share of the profits will be proportional to the amount of work you did.你的利润份额将与你完成的工作量成正比。
The taxi fare is proportional to the length of the ride.出租车收费与路程长短成正比。
Adjective The features of the face in the drawing are proportional. the website's popularity increased exponentially, resulting in a proportional increase in advertising revenue
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Prosecutors decided that the use of a knife was not a proportional response to a beating.Fox News, 12 July 2022 In this case, the entropy is proportional to the three-dimensional volume of the box, not the area. Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022 There are currently over 400 such cables, with speed of communications roughly proportional to the length of each cable. Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 15 June 2022 As a result, the Ohio constitution now requires that districts be shaped so that the makeup of the General Assembly is proportional to the political makeup of the state. Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022 When issuing sentences in cases that include multiple defendants, judges have to look at each defendant’s level of culpability and issue sentences that are proportional. Amy Forliti And Stephen Groves, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2022 And the second is that Labour and the Liberal Democrats pass legislation that creates a proportional-representation system. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022 Many extreme, single-issue candidates running as independents came together to get on the proportional-representation ballot. Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, 22 May 2022 If two shapes are similar, the angle measures are the same and the side lengths are proportional. Mark Wolfmeyer, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2022 See More
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be成比例ADVERB➤approximately, roughly大致成比例◇The amount of food a child needs is roughly proportional to her size.小孩需要的食物量與其個頭兒大致成比例。➤directly成正比◇The speed of the glider is directly proportional to the speed of the wind.滑翔機的速度與風速成正比。➤inversely成反比◇The amount of force needed is inversely proportional to the rigidity of the material.所需要的力的大小與材料的硬度成反比。PREPOSITION➤to與⋯成比例