commensurate
commensurate 英 [kəˈmenʃərət] 美 [kəˈmɛnsərɪt, -ʃə-]
adj. 相称的；同量的；同样大小的
Salary will be commensurate with experience. 薪金将会与资历相称。
Managers saw a commensurate fall in their revenues. 经理们发现自己的收入相应地减少了。
- The word commensurate has to do with things that are similar in size and therefore appropriate. Many people think the death penalty is a commensurate punishment for murder. In other words, the penalty fits the crime.
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- adj. 相称的；同量的；同样大小的
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1. Salary will be commensurate with experience.
薪金将会与资历相称。
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2. Managers saw a commensurate fall in their revenues.
经理们发现自己的收入相应地减少了。
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3. Six yards is commensurate with eighteen feet.
6码相当于18英尺.
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4. Nothing he does is commensurate to our desire.
他做的事没一件使我们称心.
- commensurate (adj.) 1640s, "corresponding in amount, degree, or magnitude," also "of equal size" (on the notion of "having the same boundaries"), from Late Latin commensuratus, from Latin com "with, together" (see com-) + Late Latin mensuratus, past participle of mensurare "to measure," from Latin mensura "a measuring, a measurement; thing to measure by," from mensus, past participle of metiri "to measure," from PIE root *me- (2) "to measure." Meaning "reducible to a common measure, commensurable" is from 1680s. Related: Commensurately.
com·men·sur·ate / kəˈmenʃərət ; NAmE kəˈmenʃərət / adjective commensurate(with sth) ( formal) matching sth in size, importance, quality, etc. （在大小、重要性、质量等方面）相称的，相当的 ◆ Salary will be commensurate with experience. 薪金将会与资历相称。 OPP incommensurate ▶ com·men·sur·ate·ly / kəˈmenʃərətli ; NAmE kəˈmenʃərətli / adverb com·men·sur·ate / kəˈmenʃərət ; NAmE kəˈmenʃərət / com·men·sur·ate·ly / kəˈmenʃərətli ; NAmE kəˈmenʃərətli /
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