balance

英[ˈbæləns]美[ˈbæləns]

n.均衡，平衡（能力），天平，余额；

v.比较，权衡，保持平衡，结算，抵消；

复数：balances;

第三人称单数：balances;

过去式：balanced;

过去分词：balanced;

现在分词：balancing;

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The future of the nations hangs in the balance.国家的前途安危未卜。

You must learn to keep your balance in skating.在溜冰时你得学会保持平衡。

An undisclosed buyer will provide a much-needed cash injection for the fragile balance sheet.一个未公开身分的买主就不稳定的资产负债状况注入所必需的现金。

Block out the bottom of this picture when it is printed; the balance of the page will be better.洗印的时候, 压掉照片的底部, 这样看起来平衡效果好些。

Nowadays, it appears that too many films are being produced, and a tax on films will help to redress the balance.时下制作的电影太多了，看来应该征收电影稅来改变这种*面。

He couldn’t explain the irregularities in the balance sheet, and I suspect him of taking the money.他无法解释资产负债表中的不正常的情况,我怀疑他把钱放进自己腰包了。

The balance on your account is 5.你的账上还剩五美元。

The wrong chemical balance can cause severe distortion of the photographic image.化学药水不合比例可引致摄影图像的严重失真。

How do you find an acceptable balance between closeness and distance in a relationship?在人际关系中，你怎样在亲密与疏离之间找到恰当的平衡？

The debits and credits should theoretically balance out within a month.从理论上讲一个月内借方的总额与贷方的总额应当相等。

英语六级真题

A search for balance between tradition and novelty.

The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

With technology everywhere in our life, it has become virtually impossible for most workers to keep a balance between work and life.

We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downsides they naturally carry with them.

Too many workplace policies effectively prohibit employees from developing a healthy work-life balance by barring them from taking time off, even when they need it most.

Seven in 10 workers say they struggle to maintain work-life balance.

As technology ( ' , and with it, work emails) seeps ( ' , 渗入 ) into every aspect of our lives, work-life balance has become an almost meaningless term.

and the choice of commencement speakers often reflects a balance of institutional priorities and aspirations

Crucially, as they opened up their markets, they balanced market economy with sensible government direction.

While that may not do much for imports, it does help GM's balance sheet – and hence makes the jobs of U.S.-based executives more stable.

They find it hard to balance career and family.

In fact, every step of the way, as (usually) Democratic leaders have tried to introduce work-family balance measures into the law, business groups have been strongly opposed.

What has prevented the passing of work-family balance laws in the United States

"They were able to walk fester, had improved balance, and were also able to get up out of a chair faster than the control group," Starr says.

As technology and with it, work emails seeps (渗入) into every aspect of our lives, work-life balance has become an almost meaningless term.

Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.

However, finding a balance between team efforts and individual projects that give you independent recognition is important for making a name for yourself and providing opportunities for advancement.

It involved skiing with his legs apart for better balance and sitting back on the skis when he came to a turn.

Keith Reid, a science manager at CCAMLR, said that the organisation sought "a balance between protection, conservation and sustainable fishing in the Southern Ocean".

Positive emotions balance out negative ones, but they have other powerful benefits, too.

Seven in ten workers say they struggle to maintain work-life balance.

The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.

Thus the more imbalanced we become due to overworking, the more value there is in activities that allow us to return to a state of balance.

Too many workplace policies effectively prohibit employees from developing a healthy work-life balance by barring them from taking time off, even when they need it most.

You see there has been a sharp increase in Indian's balance of payment deficit.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

V-ERG

（使）保持平衡；（使）平稳

If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.

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N-UNCOUNT

平衡能力

Balance is the ability to remain steady when you are standing up.

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V-RECIP-ERG

使（力量、重要性等）相等；使均衡；使持平

If you balance one thing with something different, each of the things has the same strength or importance.

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N-SING

（力量、重要性等的）均衡，均势

A balance is a situation in which all the different parts are equal in strength or importance.

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N-SING

（尤指冲突或比赛中的）*面，胜利天平

If you say that the balance tips in your favour, you start winning or succeeding, especially in a conflict or contest.

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VERB

权衡；对比；斟酌

If you balance one thing against another, you consider its importance in relation to the other one.

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VERB

使（预算、经济等）平衡

If someone balances their budget or if a government balances the economy of a country, they make sure that the amount of money that is spent is not greater than the amount that is received.

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V-ERG

结算（账目）；（使）收支相等

If you balance your books or make them balance, you prove by calculation that the amount of money you have received is equal to the amount that you have spent.

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N-COUNT

（银行账户的）余额，余数，结存

The balance in your bank account is the amount of money you have in it.

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N-SING

（钱款的）剩余部分

The balance of an amount of money is what remains to be paid for something or what remains when part of the amount has been spent.

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PHRASE

悬而未决；待定

If something hangs in the balance, it is uncertain whether it will happen or continue.

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PHRASE

保持/失去平衡

If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.

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PHRASE

（身体）失去平衡，几近跌倒

If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.

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PHRASE

惊慌失措；迷惑不解

If you are thrown off balance by something, you are surprised or confused by it.

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PHRASE

权衡之后；全面考虑之后；总的来说

You can say on balance to indicate that you are stating an opinion after considering all the relevant facts or arguments.

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英汉词典释义

n.

平衡, 均衡

天平, 秤

结存, 结余, 余额

平衡能力；身体(或物体)的平衡状态；稳定姿势

结欠

(设计、绘画、乐曲等中的)协调、调和，和谐；(比例和布*等的)相称

平衡力；抵消力，抵消因素；平衡体，配重

(钟、表等的)摆轮,平衡轮 (= balance wheel)

(酿酒配料的)均衡，均衡配比

[the B-] 【天文学、占星学】天平宫，天平座，天秤(星)座

vt. & vi.

(使)平衡, (使)均衡

与…相抵，抵消；补偿，弥补(常与off，out，up连用)

权衡, 比较

vt.

使（在某物上）保持平衡；立稳

同等重视（相对的两个事物或方面）

结平（账目）；(付清欠债)结(账)，销(账)，结余，平衡

用天平称；掂量

使(各部分)协调，使调和，使对称，与…相称；与…成比例，使成比例

vi.

微微摇摆；倾斜后又复平衡；动摇，摇摆不定，犹豫不决，踌躇

被补偿；被抵消(常与out连用)

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a state of equilibrium

2. a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

3. equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

4. harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design);

5. equality of distribution

6. something left after other parts have been taken away;

7. the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

8. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

9. an equivalent counterbalancing weight

10. a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat

Verb

1. bring into balance or equilibrium;

2. compute credits and debits of an account

3. hold or carry in equilibrium

4. be in equilibrium;

行业词典

体育： 平衡；

冶金学： 衡算；

医学： ［拉bilanx］天平：称重的一种器具；平衡：各部分之间的调整，功能之间的协调；

建筑： 平衡；

机械： 天平；利用作用在物体上的重力以平衡原理测定物体质量或确定作为质量函数的其他量值、参数或特性的仪器。；

法律： 平衡；结余；差额；权衡；

物理学： 天平；

航天： 天平；

金融： 差额；余额；平衡；结存；