| 单词 | to find one's or its level |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find one's or its level b. to find one's or its level: said of persons or things arriving at their proper place with respect to those around or connected with them.The primary use seems to be that referring to the tendency of two bodies of liquid to ‘find their level’, i.e. to equalize the vertical elevation of their upper surfaces, when free communication is established between them. ΚΠ 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 413 We have adopted a cant-phrase, That things will find their level..It is true with regard to prices, and was at first introduced under this acceptation; But with regard to population it is most incorrect. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 343 It was in vain to fret about it; and I soon found my level. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 101 Instead of the position, that all things find, it would be less equivocal..to say, that Things are always finding, their level. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. i. 30 A member of parliament soon finds his level as a commoner. < as lemmas |
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