| 例句 |
balancesnounpl. of balance a device for measuring weightuse a balance to make sure you get the amounts precisely correct a force or influence that makes an opposing force ineffective or less effectivethe balance to the mountain of complaints are the many letters of praise that we also receive cancelers(or cancellers), correctives, counteractions, counterbalances, counterforces(or counter-forces), counterpoises, counters, counterweights, equipoises, neutralizers, offsets trade-offsballasts, weights a remaining group or portionand the balance of the contestants should stand in that last corner leavings, leftovers, odds and ends, remainders, remains, remnants, residua, residues, rests fragments, scraps, vestigesbutts, oddments, scrapings, stubs, stumpsexcesses, fat, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluses bodies, bulks, mains, masses, mosts, weights to make equal in amount, degree, or statustried to balance the total amount of money spent on gifts for each child equalizes, equates, evens, levels equilibrates, equipoisesaccommodates, adjusts, compensates, fitscounterbalanceshomogenizes, normalizes, regularizes, standardizesdemocratizes disequilibrates to show uncertainty about the right course of actionhis tendency to balance and waffle on certain hot-button issues may hurt him in the general election dithers, falters, halts, hangs back, hesitates, scruples, shilly-shallies, staggers, teeters, vacillates, wavers, wobbles(also wabbles) haws, hemsdallies, dawdles, delays, lingers, pauses, procrastinates, waitsbacks down, chickens (out)considers, debates, deliberates, ponders, weighsoscillates, swaysequivocates, hedges, pussyfoots, waffles dives (in), plunges (in) decidesbudges, stirsadvances, continues to give what is owed forshe had to balance her account with the hotel before checking out of her room antes (up), clears, discharges, foots, liquidates, meets, pays, pays off, pays up, ponies up, quits, recompenses, settles, springs (for), stands repudiates |