释义 |
disproˈportionally, adv. [f. as prec. + -ly2.] In a manner or to an extent that is out of proportion.
1755in Johnson. 1839Johnston in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 7. 201 The eyes of the embryo, at this period disproportionally large. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. ix. (1852) 334 Disproportionally heavy taxes are the great cause of smuggling. 1880T. W. Webb in Nature XXI. 213 The satellites [of Mars]..are..so disproportionally minute, according to our limited ideas of proportion. |