核心畫面

Picture butter spread right to the edges with no thick spots and no bare patches — the same amount everywhere. Take that flatness and lay it over different things: over shares, and everyone gets the same; over time, and nothing jumps; over two teams, and neither is ahead; over a voice, and nothing rises.

可以想成:奶油抹到邊邊角角,沒有哪裡特別厚、也沒有哪裡露出來——每一處的量都一樣。把這種「平」鋪到不同的東西上:鋪在更多收起可以想成:奶油抹到邊邊角角,沒有哪裡特別厚、也沒有哪裡露出來——每一處的量都一樣。把這種「平」鋪到不同的東西上:鋪在分配上,每個人拿到一樣多;鋪在時間上,沒有忽快忽慢;鋪在兩隊身上,誰也沒領先;鋪在聲音上,語調不起伏。

From the picture

節奏或間隔沒有起伏

把「平」鋪在時間或空間的排列上:中間沒有忽然變快變慢、也沒有忽寬忽窄,整體維持同一個節奏。

evenly (steadily/evenly spaced) · r · A2

in a regular, steady way, without sudden changes; or with equal spaces between things.

平穩地;間隔均勻地

兩邊實力相當

把「平」放在兩個對手之間:實力擺在天平上不偏不倚,所以誰贏都有可能。

evenly matched · r · B1

if two players or teams are evenly matched, they have almost the same skill, so either one could win.

勢均力敵

Also in this word

evenly (spread uniformly) · r · A2

in a way that covers or touches every part of something with the same amount.

均勻地

evenly (in equal shares) · r · A2

in equal parts or shares; so that each person or side gets the same amount.

平均地

原始詞典資料4 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。

evenlyadv/ˈiːvənli/

  • 1

    So as to form a flat surface.

    • Spread the icing evenly over the cake.
  • 2

    In a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each; equally.

    • To avoid arguments, he divided the sweets evenly between his two children.
  • 3

    mathematicssciencesIn a manner that leaves no remainder.

    • 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
  • 4

    In terms of or by means of even numbers.

    • The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。