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/ɪˈkwɑːləti/ · /ɪˈkwɒləti/
When all people are treated the same way and have the same rights and chances in life.
平等
複數 equalities
核心畫面
Picture a flat, level surface where nothing sits higher than anything else. 'Equality' carries that image onto people: everyone on the same level, treated the same, with the same rights and chances.
可以想成一個平坦、水平的檯面，上面沒有一樣東西比另一樣高。equality 把這個『一樣高、一樣平』的畫面放到人身上…更多收起
可以想成一個平坦、水平的檯面，上面沒有一樣東西比另一樣高。equality 把這個『一樣高、一樣平』的畫面放到人身上：每個人站在同一個高度，被同樣對待，擁有同樣的權利和機會。From the word’s history
Equality goes back to Latin 'aequus' meaning 'level, even, flat'. It first described physical flatness and only later stretched to people being on the same footing — the 'level' picture is the original one.
equality 上溯到拉丁文 aequus，本義是『平的、水平的、齊平的』。它一開始講的是實際的平坦，後來才延伸到人跟人站在同一個高度上——『齊平』這個畫面才是它最早的來源。
etymonline.com/word/equality; etymonline.com/word/equal
原始詞典資料3 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。
equalitynoun/ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
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The fact of being equal.
- The most powerful of these general ideas which have shaped political development in recent times is of course the ideal of material equality.
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mathematicssciencesThe fact of being equal, of having the same value.
- 3
The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
- I think somebody asked me the other day when I was holding a conference over here at the library if a woman could be President of the United States. Well I said they've taken over everything else in the world, why not that? [Laughter] And that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen one of these days because the country believes in equality.
- Jefferson was talking about the equality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.
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。