- too large or too small in comparison with something else不相称的; 不匀称的:
people on lower incomes spend a disproportionate amount of their income on fuel
低收入的人花在燃料上的钱却不少
persistent offenders were given sentences that were disproportionate to the offences they had committed.
惯犯在被判刑时是从重量刑的。
派生词
disproportionately
adverbdisproportionateness
noun词源
mid 16th cent.: from DIS- (expressing absence)+PROPORTIONATE, on the pattern of French disproportionné.