proportion

Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.

水覆盖了地球表面的大部分。

I like the general style of the building, but the chimneys are out of proportion — they're too big.

我喜欢这栋房子的总构型, 可是烟囱太大,不成比例.

We must not lose our sense of proportion.

我们不能丧失主次观念。

Imports of foodstuffs accounted for a small proportion of total imports.

食物进口仅占总进口额的一小部份.

A large proportion of the children come to school by bus.

很大一部分儿童乘公共汽车上学.

His expenditure on pleasure and luxuries is rather high in proportion to his income.

同他的收入相比较,他在享受行乐方面的花费太高了.

Women's bodies tend to have a higher proportion of fat to water.

女性的身体内脂肪与水分的比例往往更高。

The railways will carry a far higher proportion of freight traffic.

铁路将承担比例高得多的货运量。

His short legs were not in proportion to his long body.

他的短腿和他的身长不成比例.

The price of this article is out of all proportion to its value.

这物品的价格大超出了它的价值.

The pressure in the cylinders would go up in proportion to the boiler pressure.

汽缸内的压力会随着汽锅压力的增加而相应增加。

His features are in proportion.

他五官端正.

A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.

在任何国家的犯罪者中，十几二十几岁的青年男性都占了很高的比例。

Everything just got blown out of proportion.

所有一切都变得不可收拾了。

The proportion of women in middle management has risen to 40%.

中层管理人员中女性所占比例已经上升至40%。

The media may be blowing it up out of proportion.

媒体可能过分夸大了此事。

There was a proportion of research, which I reckoned at not more than 30 percent, that was basic research.

我估计基础研究的比例最多只占30％。

The radio station has to include a substantial proportion of classical music.

该电台不得不播放大量的古典音乐。

The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%.

从事该职业的女性比例已升高到17.3%。

When you're angry you don't always see things in proportion.

人生气时往往不按情理看事情.

A man's vanity is actually in proportion to his ignorance.

一个人的虚荣心实际上是和他的愚蠢程度成正比.

His head is out of proportion to the size of his body.

他的头部与身体大小不成比例.

We've got to keep this in proportion.

我们应当正确对待这一点。

We must keep a sense of proportion about all this.

我们对所有的这些都要有轻重缓急之分。

The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides.

那些统计数据最引人注目之处是其极高的自杀率。

In drawing a person, it is difficult to get all the parts of the body in proportion.

画人时, 很难将身体各部分画得成比例.

The proportion of imports to exports is worrying the government.

进口与出口的比例令政府担忧.

A high proportion of the new arrivals are skilled professionals.

新来的人中很大一部分是技术熟练的专业人士。

The unskilled section of the working class was diminishing as a proportion of the workforce.

劳动力中非熟练工人的人数正在减少.