proportions

a financial crisis of mammoth proportions

极其严重的金融危机

You should mix the sand, the water in just proportions.

你应按正确的比例混合砂子和水.

In a worst-case scenario, the disease will reach epidemic proportions.

最坏的情况是这种病流行开来.

He bought a greatcoat for himself of soothing proportions.

他给自己买了一件尺码肥大舒适的大衣.

You can vary the relative proportions of things in a picture very simply.

你能很简单地改变一幅画中事物的相对比例。

They held a banquet of epic proportions.

他们举行了盛大的宴会.

A simple mistake in judgment was often magnified to the proportions of a major crime.

在审判时,小过失常常被夸大成滔天大罪.

a hangover of Wagnerian proportions

强烈的宿醉反应

Steps must be taken to reduce the problem to manageable proportions.

必须采取措施将问题缩小到可控制的范围.

The company employs men and women in roughly equal proportions.

公司聘用的男员工与女员工人数大致相等.

The problem is beginning to assume mammoth proportions.

这个问题开始显得十分重大.

Keep your spending on luxuries down to manageable proportions.

将你在奢侈品上的花费降至可控范围。

In the tropics plants grow to huge proportions.

在热带，植物会长得非常高大。

Scott of the Antarctic was a national hero of mythic proportions.

南极探险家斯科特是位赫赫有名的民族英雄。

The thing approached the proportions of a scandal -- then died away.

事情几乎要成为一桩丑闻 —— 后来平息了下去.