The amount of money people save increases in inverse proportion to the amount they spend.
人們省下的錢和他們花出的錢呈反比上升。
反義:in proportion to... 成正比地
The amount of energy consumed in this factory is in proportion to its number of products.
這家工廠消耗的能源和它生產(chǎn)的產(chǎn)品數(shù)量成正比。