| 单词 | equal |
| 释义 | equal I. 1. a. (1) < equal quantities of bread for each man > < each placed an equal distance from the door > < equal pay for equal work > (2) < set each factor equal to zero > < class a is equal to class b if a is included in b and b is included in a — M.R.Cohen & E. Nagel > < the temperature there must have been equal to the freezing point of the sea — Valter Schytt > b. < held men to be equal in the sight of God > < work equal to his best > < premature babies … eventually … become equal to children born after a normal time — Morris Fishbein > < of equal interest with the first book > specifically < all men are created equal — U.S. Declaration of Independence > c. < failing to provide equal opportunities > : uniform in quantity or quality, measure or degree < an equal pressure throughout the system > < the song of the birds … is not equal as to melody and force — Richard Semon > 2. < in equal care to nourish lord in hall or beast in stall — Sidney Lanier > < authors of the past and present should be judged with equal eyes — F.O.Matthiessen > : fair, just < equal laws > 3. a. < with equal mind … they fell upon their swords — Philip Murray †1952 > b. < architecture, always hard, logical, and equal — Osbert Sitwell > : level < the equal plains of … Sicily — Elizabeth B. Browning > 4. a. < neither their financial resources nor their military organization were equal to the task — A.C.Flick > : capable of meeting a demand upon one's ability or resources < he was equal to extended walks by this time — T.B.Costain > b. < work not equal to his abilities > 5. archaic < it was equal to him whether he fell by his enemies in the field or by his creditors in the city — Oliver Goldsmith > Synonyms: see same II. 1. < humankind as the law views it is a society of equals — B.N.Cardozo > < hardly a man his equal in the field — Elizabeth M. Roberts > < he has no equal in common sense and honesty > 2. obsolete < profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation — Gal 1:14 (Authorized Version) > 3. < if equals are taken from equals, the remainders are equal > 4. III. transitive verb 1. a. archaic < equaling the pleasures of war to social festivity — Sharon Turner > b. archaic < the fair democracy of flowers that equals cot and palace — J.G.Whittier > c. obsolete < cities have been equaled with the ground — Robert Hill > 2. < the migrant population equaled the native population > < for sheer relaxation and comfort I don't know anything to equal it — Keith Munro > specifically < two times two equals four > < if the curve xy equals the arc AB > — symbol = 3. a. < equal that if you can > b. obsolete < the ardent passion … which if he failed to equal — Henry Fielding > intransitive verb obsolete < we are so a body strong enough, even as we are, to equal with the king — Shakespeare > Synonyms: see match IV. obsolete < he is equal ravenous as he is subtle — Shakespeare > |
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