EXAMPLE: Our new boss a proponent of short but frequent staff meetings.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is viewed by many in Hiroshima a key proponent of ahawkish Japan.

日本首相小泉纯一郎在广岛地区被认为是鹰派的主要支持者.

I am a proponent of setting goals.

我是一个目标设定法的倡导者.

Proponents of economic nationalism had the president's ear.

总统对于经济民族主义的提议者则言听计从.

Barry Barnes and David Bloor are the proponents of the School.

巴里·巴恩斯和大卫·布鲁尔是这个学派的理论家.

But unless they play fair, the proponents of behavioural targeting risk ruining a promising new idea.

但除非公平游戏, 否则行为追踪这个新点子将有毁在其倡导者手里的危险.

Proponents even believe it will become the Information Age s wave of the future.

有人甚至认为它将是信息时代的新浪潮.

And that, proponents of the technology believe, will just be the beginning.

这种科技的推崇者认为那只是个开始.

They saw a revival of investment as peculiarly desirableas do today's proponents of supply-side economics.

他们认为投资更为重要,而他们的理论和今天的供应经济学的观点是一致的.

The result is precisely what the project's original proponents hoped for, and that its opponents feared.

现在其结果完全符合项目设计者们的初衷, 并且这一结果也正是反对者们所害怕的.

Proponents of such opinions were arrested as'traitors.'

提倡这种主张的人马上作为“卖国贼 ” 逮捕起来.

We must have profits proportionable to our expense and hazard.

我们必须有和我们成本与风险匀称的利润.

to be directly/inversely proportional to sth

与某事物成正比 / 反比

At constant temperature, the pressure of a gas is proportional to its volume.

温度不变, 则气体压力和其体积成反比例.

Families with children spend proportionally less per person than families without children.

有子女家庭比无子女家庭的人均开销相对地少。

The rate of change of velocity, for a given body, is directly proportional exerted on it.

对于一个物体, 其速度的变化率与它所受的力成正比.

But since the battery is fairly thin, how long it lasts is proportional to its area.

由于电池非常薄, 所以它的使用时间就与其面积成正比.

...a proportional fee based on the final sale price.

与最后销售价格成比例的费用

Current is proportional to voltage with resistance being constant.

如果电阻保持不变,则电流与电压成正比.

Objective : To investigate the proportional relationship between lip and chin.

目的: 寻求西安地区汉族青年正常牙合颅面部颏、唇区垂直向的比例关系.

Quentin : Well a proportional representation system would solve that problem.

昆廷: 比例代表制可解决这个问题.