In mature, fully developed countries such as the UK, more-efficient farming practices and better transport, storage and processing facilities ensure that a larger proportion of the food produced reaches markets and consumers.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
Since 2003 the small, elite liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, has boosted the proportion of so-called under-represented minority students in entering freshman classes from 8% to 13%.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
Last spring the school graduated the same proportion of minorities as it did whites
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
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部分
A proportion of a group or an amount is a part of it.
例句
A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die...
那片區域里的很大一部分海豚終將死去。
A proportion of the rent is met by the city council.
一部分租金由市政委員會支付。
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比例
The proportion of one kind of person or thing in a group is the number of people or things of that kind compared to the total number of people or things in the group.
例句
The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%...
從事該職業的女性比例已升高到17.3%。
The radio station has to include a substantial proportion of classical music.
該電臺不得不播放大量的古典音樂。
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比例；比
The proportion of one amount to another is the relationship between the two amounts in terms of how much there is of each thing.
例句
Women's bodies tend to have a higher proportion of fat to water.
女性的身體內脂肪與水分的比例往往更高。
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N-PLURAL
（通常指極其巨大的事物的）大小，尺寸
If you refer to the proportions of something, you are referring to its size, usually when this is extremely large.
例句
In the tropics plants grow to huge proportions.
在熱帶，植物會長得非常高大。
...a fraud of breathtaking proportions.
金額驚人的詐騙案
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（藝術品或設計的各部分之間的）比例
If you refer to the proportions in a work of art or design, you are referring to the relative sizes of its different parts.
例句
You can vary the relative proportions of things in a picture very simply.
你能很簡單地改變一幅畫中事物的相對比例。
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PREP-PHRASE
與…成比例；與…相稱；按照
If one thing increases or decreases in proportion to another thing, it increases or decreases to the same degree as that thing.
例句
The pressure in the cylinders would go up in proportion to the boiler pressure.
汽缸內的壓力會隨著汽鍋壓力的增加而相應增加。
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與…相比
If something is small or large in proportion to something else, it is small or large when compared with that thing.
例句
Children tend to have relatively larger heads than adults in proportion to the rest of their body.
與成人相比，兒童頭部占整個身體的比例相對較大。
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與…極不成比例；與…完全不相稱
If you say that something is out of all proportion to something else, you think that it is far greater or more serious than it should be.
例句
The punishment was out of all proportion to the crime.
罰不當罪。
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PHRASE
過于看重/正確看待
If you get something out of proportion, you think it is more important or worrying than it really is. If you keep something in proportion, you have a realistic view of how important it is.
例句
Everything just got blown out of proportion...
所有一切都變得不可收拾了。
We've got to keep this in proportion.
我們應當正確對待這一點。
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PHRASE
區別輕重緩急的能力；分寸感；主次觀念
If someone has a sense of proportion, they know what is really important and what is not.
例句
We must not lose our sense of proportion.
我們不能喪失主次觀念。