| 单词 | level |
| 释义 | lev·el I. 1. a. b. c. < take a level > 2. < brings the tilted surface to a level > especially < water tries to find its own level > 3. a. < wall charts arranged at eye level — J.K.Blake > < we were then 400 feet beneath the level of the fields overhead — Andrew Finn > b. < a side-hill village, spilling from the level of a plateau down a sharp incline into the valley — American Guide Series: Vermont > 4. a. < the level of insight is generally very high — S.E.Hyman > < the level of excellence achieved in the novel … provides an imposing yardstick against which the film repeatedly will be measured — Arthur Knight > < different levels or orders of truth — J.W.Krutch > b. < I don't feel that it's necessary to quarrel with people. One puts himself on their level in that way — J.C.Powys > c. < stipulated that the meeting should be on the level of foreign ministers — New York Times > < had a genius for … using her associates at all levels in … building her own career — Harrison Smith > < only on the provincial and state level had a certain regrouping taken place — Americana Annual > < handled major problems of the union on a national level — Current Biography > d. < the social levels … were laid upon one's position in the university rather than money — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > 5. a. b. 6. 7. 8. a. b. < the 700-foot level > — compare drift 6 9. < a normal blood-sugar level > 10. < a scale of auditory magnitudes has been derived from loudness tests and can be used whenever the loudness level of a sound is known — J.C.Steinberg & W.A.Munson > < video signal level is usually referred to in terms of volts, while audio level is measured in volume units — H.E.Ennes > 11. 12. a. < the student who has not reached an advanced level — A.S.Hornby > < they slow the game down to a tempo corresponding to their level of fitness — W.J.Finn > b. < evidence as to levels of personality development (e.g., anal, oral) — G.P.Murdock > 13. < production, employment, and national income were at record peacetime levels — Collier's Year Book > < continued high level of private capital investments — Fritz Sternberg > 14. < the peso … was allowed to seek its own level — Collier's Year Book > • - on the level II. transitive verb 1. < they are the natural highways of all nations … leveling the ground and removing obstacles from the path of the traveler — H.D.Thoreau > 2. a. < a second sentry … leveled his halberd at the parson's breast — Max Peacock > < hesitates to level his barrage directly — C.H.Stoddard > b. < bitter taunts that his wife had leveled at him — J.C.Powys > < two major criticisms have been leveled at the program — New York Times > < jokes, ridicule, and ill-natured gossip were leveled against the daring females who succeeded in getting employment — Langston Day > 3. < love levels all ranks — W.S.Gilbert > < social differences in the plantation country of the South were leveled down to some extent after the Civil War — Hans Kurath > 4. a. < a mysterious fire leveled the tower — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < the cyclone of 1889 leveled the entire city — American Guide Series: Minnesota > b. < brought his fist up quickly under my chin and leveled me backwards on the bed — Shea Murphy > 5. 6. 7. intransitive verb 1. < the deck of the Janet leveled a little as she slowed down — Arnold Gifford > < the trail turned south there and leveled out — W.V.T.Clark > 2. a. < they level: a volley, a smoke and the clearing of smoke — Robert Browning > b. obsolete 3. < your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves — Samuel Johnson > 4. < dyes that level readily > 5. 6. 7. < I'll level with you. From you I hold back nothing — Richard Brooks > III. 1. a. < these low, level landscapes … are characteristic of the continent as a whole — Atlas of Australian Resources > < this land is so level that before the erection of … fences snow-sailing was a popular and very exciting sport — American Guide Series: Minnesota > b. < the bottom of the excavation must be level — J.R.Dalzell > 2. a. < secure the advantage of a level temperature — Oil > b. < where every democratic dream had been fulfilled, and where all men had started level — W.B.Yeats > < another rider drew level with the squire — T.B.Costain > < sitting down as a level member of the dairyman's household seemed at the outset an undignified proceeding — Thomas Hardy > c. < their level life is but a smoldering fire, unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire — Oliver Goldsmith > d. (1) < she gave him a level look — Louis Auchincloss > (2) < finished his bottle and began to speak in level tones and with a quiet final authority — Honor Tracy > < it was not in level and sober mood that the heir was expected but in a stew of high excitement — Francis Hackett > e. < the race was clearly level > 3. < a longtime producer, who, from seeing so many actors come and go, keeps a level head about them — New York Times > < arrive at a justly proportioned and level judgment on this affair — Sir Winston Churchill > 4. < a badly prepared fabric cannot be expected to give level dyeing — R.S.Horsfall & L.G.Lawrie > 5. a. < pronounced impossible with level stress > < level stress is characteristic of the French language > b. < a kind of level whine — Robert Browning > 6. 7. a. < college-level institutes and higher-than-college-level academies — Joseph Alsop > b. < the nature and extent of top-level thinking with respect to planned action — J.F.H.Turton > 8. < “a nice level lot,” said the colonel … as they watched the first four companies — Rudyard Kipling > < by only keeping white hounds and by most careful and judicious mating he obtained a level pack in 20 years — B.V.Fitzgerald > 9. < the game is level > 10. < level premium plans are offered widely by insurance companies > Synonyms: < a level and convenient lot > flat stresses the notion of an unbroken horizontal surface; it indicates lack of a break in surface contour and may be deprecatory < flat uninteresting prairies > No longer common, the adjective plain in this sense is likely to apply to terrain and have about the same implications as the noun plain. plane, a close cognate of plain, similarly has the connotations of the noun plain. In mathematical use it contrasts with solid or spherical. even stresses lack of noteworthy breaks or irregularities in surfaces although it does not indicate, as smooth does, complete lack of any roughnesses, ruptures, or irregularities. smooth stresses a completely regular surface lacking irregularities perceptible to touch or sight, roughnesses, dents, ridges, breaks, or inept jointures. smooth has no suggestion of a given plane. flush may stress lack of designed breaks in an even surface, like panels, ridges, molding strips, or cornices; it may suggest the setting or embedding of one thing into another leaving an uninterrupted plane < bolts set flush > • - level best IV. obsolete |
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