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不成比例的;不相称的;不均衡的;打破平衡
dis·pro·por·tion·ate
dIs pr por sh niht
disproportionately (adv.), disproportionateness (n.)
adjective
out of proportion, as in quantity or appearance; unbalanced.I think his level of complaint is disproportionate to the degree of his injury.There is a disproportionate amount of money allocated for entertainment.
"不成比例的,不对称的,缺乏适当的比例",1550年代; 见 dis- "不" + proportionate。同义词 Improportionate 来自14世纪晚期。相关词: Disproportionately。
borrowed from Medieval Latin disprōportiōnātus, past participle of disprōportiōnāre "to make out of proportion," from Latin dis- dis- + Medieval Latin prōportiōnāre "to compose according to proportions" — more at proportion >entry 2
The first known use of disproportionate was in 1555
disquiet1 of 2verb
to make uneasy or restless : disturb
disquiet2 of 2noun
an uneasy feeling
disqualifyverb
to make or declare unfit or not qualified
disqualificationnoun
something that disqualifies
the act of disqualifying : the state of being disqualified
disputatiousadjective
likely to dispute or cause disputealso: marked by disputation
disproportionateadjective
being out of proportion
disproportionateadjective
being out of proportion
1 At the same time, projected text informed the audience about the disproportionate incarceration rates of African-American youth.
2 My brother did about average in life, drastically disproportionate to what was invested, and my father has disinherited him.
3 Running behind his father, Ben began to feel a disproportionate joy rise in him.
4 Casting black female actors as legacy characters is a great step towards rectifying the historical racism and sexism that has led to a disproportionate number of those characters being white men.
5 The pandemic exposed the disproportionate numbers of immigrant workers in the agriculture, poultry and seafood industries in rural America.
6 Hollywood, they suggested, commands a disproportionate amount of popular attention.
7 I’m an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.
8 He is reacting with a level of devastation that seems disproportionate.
9 A question about Bankhead, the rough neighborhood in Atlanta where he grew up, led to a conversation about the disproportionate salaries of corrections officers relative to schoolteachers.
10 Farm subsidies are protected by the Founding Fathers’ decision to give sparsely populated rural states disproportionate power.
11 Yet we invoke it because these studies garner a disproportionate amount of media coverage and shape public perception of what brain imaging can tell us.
12 “If her alleged infractions are what I understand them to be, the punishment seems crazily disproportionate,” he added.
13 Indeed, the whole novel takes place in a slightly stiff and artificial realm of bold statements and disproportionate responses.
14 The disproportionate hurdles women directors face in Hollywood have made headlines this year, especially after the American Civil Liberties Union urged government agencies to investigate gender discrimination in Hollywood.
15 A tantrum prompted by someone’s use of his bathroom brought him an outrageously disproportionate six-year sentence for fleeing law officers and attempting to run them down in 1988.
16 Key figures in those companies control the voting shares, which gives them a disproportionate influence in their company's affairs.
17 Baird, who has “sources as far away as Capri,” she says, found the latter piece in Florence; like so many in this residence, it exerts an influence disproportionate to its size.
18 Their tormentor metes out a cruel and disproportionate kind of justice, and revels in the punishment.
19 Lee has received disproportionate credit for their work, partly due to a misunderstanding of what the two creators actually did.
20 This is something that is obviously not exclusively true for autistic people, but certainly being on the spectrum does come with a disproportionate heightening of anxiety.
1 不成比例
unproportionate off-center incommensurate disproportionally disproportion out of scale out of proportion disproportionately undue
2 歧化
4 不相称
malappropriate misbecoming improper unfit unworthy undeserved unbecoming unsuited ill-suited incommensurate unbefitting undeservedly unworthily disparity disproportion inappropriateness unsuitability out of proportion out of character unmatched incongruous dissociable incongruity inappropriate unsuitable inept ill-fitting unfitting mismated ill-assorted mismatch out of all proportion to out of all proportion out of proportion to out of place undue incongruent unapt unduly unseemly unworthiness unconformity unproportionate anisometric impertinent incommensurable disproportioned heterocercal ill-matched unproportioned unbeseeming inconcinnity
5 不匀称的
irregular asymmetrical interrupted dissymmetrical dissymmetric choppy lopsided unsymmetrical unshapely jug handled
6 不均衡
lopsided imbalanced top-heavy ill-balanced imbalance unbalance disproportion uneven unbalanced unequal disparity dissymmetry imparity
7 不相称的
malappropriate misbecoming improper unfit unworthy undeserved unbecoming unsuited ill-suited incommensurate unbefitting out of character dissonant inapt inapposite unmatched incongruous dissociable inappropriate unsuitable inept ill-fitting unfitting ill-assorted undue incongruent unapt unproportionate anisometric unseemly impertinent incommensurable disproportioned heterocercal ill-matched unproportioned unbeseeming
10 不相应的