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Disproportionately tells you that something happens in a way that is too much or too little compared with something else. It answers “how?”, not “what kind?”. Writers use it when a group gets more than their share, or less: one small town might be disproportionately hit by a storm; one kind of student might be disproportionately absent. It is a careful, slightly formal adverb, common in news and school essays. Though actually, sometimes treat it as a fancy “very”, which it is not — it always points to a comparison, even when the other side is only implied.
不成比例地
組成disproportionate + -ly (turns the adjective into an adverb: “in that way”).
同家族的字
- disproportionatethe adjective this adverb is built from
- disproportionthe noun for the uneven situation
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
disproportionatelyadv/ˈdɪs.pɹəˌpɔɹ.ʃən.ət.li/
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in a disproportionate manner
- Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。