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单词 on or upon a level
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on or upon a level
a. Position, plane, standard, in social, moral, or intellectual matters. on or upon a level: on the same ‘plane’, on an equality (with).
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1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. xviii. 92 Aboue the leuell of subiection.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Gg8v All these shall sink themselves to his Level.
1667 J. Dryden Let. to Sir R. Howard in Annus Mirabilis 1666 Pref. They inspir'd me with thoughts above my ordinary level.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 331 Men, whose aspiring Intellectuals had raised them above the Common Level.
1710 J. Swift Corr. 10 Oct. (1963) I. 183 Their two Lordships might have succeeded easyer than men of my level can..hope to do.
1712 G. Berkeley Passive Obed. §20. 25 The Precept against Rebellion is on a level with other moral Rules.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶4 Where the Age and Circumstances of both Parties are pretty much upon a level.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. xiii. 48 To degrade Humane Kind to a level with Brute Beasts.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. xii. 112 It was only reducing feasts and fasts to the level of bread and water.
1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 121 The popular man stands on our own level.
1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds vii. 94 The calamity..had reduced all to one level.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 182 A present madness which has brought down wisdom to a common level with folly.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xi. 3 We must place English and Norman writers on a level.
1874 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds 40 Middle English is practically on a level with Dutch.
1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 348 A much higher level of doctrine and ritual.
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