| 单词 | out of proportion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of proportion b. out of proportion: lacking, or so as to lack, appropriate relation (to something else); unbalanced, disproportionate; esp. disproportionately large; exaggerated, overemphasized. Also more emphatically out of all proportion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > unsuitable or inappropriate [phrase] > disproportionate out of proportion1579 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 168 His head was somwhat to long and out of proportion to the rest of his bodie. 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie Peroration 249 Be there not enemies to the common end, being growen out of proportion? 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 217 Poplars and Abeles [on] coming to be very old are apt to grow knurry and out of proportion. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 359 If the pomp exceed the character, and be carry'd out of proportion. 1790 J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 179 Its hinder parts..are..out of proportion, when compared with the fore parts. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 381 The rise in the last year..is enormously out of all proportion. 1831 J. Keble Serm. (1848) v. 116 Civil liberty..is usually allowed to fill a space in our thoughts, out of all proportion to that which it fills in the plan of happiness drawn out in the Bible. 1879 H. James Confidence I. xvi. 237 It was a feeling of unbounded expansion, quite out of proportion, as he said to himself. 1932 B. Segale At End of Sante Fe Trail i. x. 65 The whole leg was mortified and swollen out of proportion. 1937 V. Woolf Years 128 Her emotion seemed to him out of all proportion to its object. 1987 F. Wyndham Other Garden v. 67 Her despair had been out of all proportion to its immediate cause. 2005 Scotsman (Nexis) 18 Aug. 10 Many modern kit houses are too wide and so the roofs look out of proportion. < as lemmas |
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