on level terms

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释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    In a state of fair competition.

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries Carrados knew quite enough of flint implements—as indeed he seemed to know enough of any subject beneath the sun—to be able to talk on level terms with an expert, and he was quite equal to meeting a reference to Evans or to Nadaillac with another.