喜樂美語

One part held up against the whole, so you can see how much of the whole it takes up. Not "how big" on its own, but "how big compared with".

你手上有一整塊東西，然後你把目光放在其中一小塊上，問的不是「這塊有多大」，而是「這塊相對於整體，佔了多少」。重點永遠是「拿來比」——一份對著另一份、一部分對著全體。所以 proportion 從來不是單獨一個數字，它總是兩個東西擺在一起看出來的關係：一杯水裡有多少糖、一個班上有多少人戴眼鏡、一張臉上眼睛佔多大位置。你可以把它想成心裡有一把尺，這把尺不量絕對大小，只量「比起來如何」。

From the word’s history

From Latin prōportiō, from pro ("in relation to") + portio ("a share, a part") — literally "a part set against another part", which is exactly the comparing move the modern word still makes. English portion comes from the same portio.

拉丁文 prōportiō 由 pro（對著、相對於）加 portio（份、部分）組成，字面就是「一份對著另一份」。這個組合正好就是現代 proportion 的核心動作：不看單獨的一份，而是把一份擺到另一份旁邊去看。英文的 portion（一份、一客）就是同一個 portio。

Wiktionary, "proportion" (Middle English proporcion ← Old French ← Latin prōportiō, from pro + portio); the payload's own ATTESTED ORIGINS note

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n複數 proportions

v過去式 proportioned過去分詞 proportioned-ing proportioning三單 proportions

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

proportionnoun/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/

  • 1

    A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

    • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,[…]!”
  • 2

    Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.

  • 3

    Proper or equal share.

    • Let the women[…]do the same things in their proportions and capacities.
  • 4

    The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.

    • the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body
    • The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.
  • 5

    mathematicssciencesA statement of equality between two ratios.

  • 6

    archaicmathematicssciencesThe "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.

  • 7

    Size.

    • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
    • What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

proportionverb/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/

  • 1

    To divide into proper shares; to apportion.

    • In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.
  • 2

    To form symmetrically.

  • 3

    artartsTo set or render in proportion.

  • 4

    archaicTo correspond to.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。