I cannot better illustrate what I mean than by my own example. I have frequently used the word "equality" in an absolute sense - nay, I have personified equality in several places; thus I have said that equality does such and such things, or refrains from doing others. It may be affirmed that the writers of the age of Louis XIV would not have used these expressions: they would never have thought of using the word "equality" without applying it to some particular object; and they would rather have renounced the term altogether than have consented to make a living personage of it.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
The symmetrical solids were regarded by PYTHAGORAS, and by the Greek thinkers after him, as of the greatest importance. To be perfectly symmetrical or regular, a solid must have an equal number of faces meeting at each of its angles, and these faces must be equal regular polygons, _i.e_. figures whose sides and angles are all equal. PYTHAGORAS, perhaps, may be credited with the great discovery that there are only five such solids. These are as follows:--英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
Thus, that independence of mind which equality supposes to exist, is never so great, nor ever appears so excessive, as at the time when equality is beginning to establish itself, and in the course of that painful labor by which it is established. That sort of intellectual freedom which equality may give ought, therefore, to be very carefully distinguished from the anarchy which revolution brings. Each of these two things must be severally considered, in order not to conceive exaggerated hopes or fears of the future.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
Tell me, boy, is not this a square of four feet which I have drawn? And now I add another square equal to the former one? And a third, which is equal to either of them? Suppose that we fill up the vacant corner? Very good. Here, then, there are four equal spaces? And how many times larger is this space than this other? Four times.英文原著 · 《Meno》
But even in the Cape, prior to Union, signs were not wanting that some slight reactions had set in. By degrees the doctrine of equal rights, which formed the basis of the Cape Constitution, despite its resuscitation by the famous declaration of the great Rhodes, was losing its force. However, in the face of minor infractions of the principle of equal rights, and some invasions of the necessary corollary to that principle, the right to equal opportunity -- in the industrial as well as in the political world -- we were not wholly dissatisfied with the White man's rule in the Cape.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
We began by thinking of the self as just a little local self; then we extended it to the family, the cause, the nation--ever to a larger and vaster being. At last there comes a time when we recognize--or see that we SHALL have to recognize--an inner Equality between ourselves and all others; not of course an external equality--for that would be absurd and impossible --but an inner and profound and universal Equality. And so we come again to the mystic root-conception of Democracy.英文原著 · 《Pagan and Christian Creeds》
Pride equals job equals self esteem equals more pride.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Equals sales, equals profit, equals new Mercedes.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Times 20 trips to the oven, which equals nine hours, which equals $4,000.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Okay, so, Vi equals 367 meters per second, and D equals .00214, so th...美剧 · 《Modern Family》