| 释义 |
lev·el·er
noun
or lev·el·ler \ˈlev(ə)lə(r)\
(-s)
1. : one that levels: as
a. : a scraper for leveling ground
< large automatic levelers like the land plane — O.W.Israelsen >
b. : an adjustable attachment on row-cultivating tools for leveling off ridges left by the cultivators
2.
a. usually leveller, usually capitalized : one of a group of radicals arising in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War and advocating a program of constitutional reform designed to secure equality before the law for all men especially in political and economic rights together with religious toleration as opposed to all forms of church establishment
< the Levellers … objected to political privilege on the part of the nobility — G.H.Sabine >
b. : one advocating or held to advocate the leveling of differences of rank, privilege, or possession among men; especially : one favoring the removal of political or social inequalities
< determined levelers of society, the Swedish dislike any sort of ostentation — Harper's Bazaar >
< the republicans, the levelers, the fanatics, — all ranged themselves on the side of the new ideas — George Bancroft >
c. : something that tends to reduce or eliminate differences among men
< for us housewives, a ration card was the great leveler — Joan Comay >
< war has always been the great leveler — Harper's > |