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单词 balance
释义
balance
(bæləns )
Word forms: balances , balancing , balanced
1. verb B2
If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
I balanced on the ledge. [VERB preposition/adverb]
He balanced a football on his head. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
Synonyms: stabilize, support, level, steady  
2. uncountable noun B2
Balance is the ability to remain steady when you are standing up.
The medicines you are currently taking could be affecting your balance.
Synonyms: equilibrium, stability, steadiness, evenness  
3. verb B2
If you balance one thing with something different, each of the things has the same strength or importance.
Balance spicy dishes with mild ones. [VERB noun + with]
The state has got to find some way to balance these two needs. [VERB noun]
Supply and demand on the currency market will generally balance. [VERB]
Synonyms: offset, match, square, make up for  
balanced adjective [usually adverb ADJECTIVE] B2
This book is a well balanced biography.
4. singular noun B2
A balance is a situation in which all the different parts are equal in strength or importance.
Their marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values. [+ between]
There was no other way to ensure that people would get the right balance of foods.
...the ecological balance of the forest.
Synonyms: stability, equanimity, constancy, steadiness  
5. singular noun
If you say that the balance tips in your favour, you start winning or succeeding, especially in a conflict or contest.
...a powerful new gun which could tip the balance of the war in their favour.
The balance continues to swing away from final examinations to continuous assessment.
6. verb B2
If you balance one thing against another, you consider its importance in relation to the other one.
She carefully tried to balance religious sensitivities against democratic freedom. [VERB noun + against]
Synonyms: weigh, consider, compare, estimate  
7. verb
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.
He balanced his budgets by rigid control over public expenditure. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: calculate, rate, judge, total  
8. verb
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.
...teaching them to balance the books. [VERB noun]
To make the books balance, spending must fall and taxes must rise. [VERB]
9. countable noun
The balance in your bank account is the amount of money you have in it.
I'd like to check the balance in my account please.
10. singular noun B2
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.
They were due to pay the balance on delivery.
Synonyms: remainder, rest, difference, surplus  
11.  See also bank balance
12. in the balance phrase
If something hangs in the balance, it is uncertain whether it will happen or continue.
The fate of the project hangs in the balance.
13. keep your balance phrase B2
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.
She was holding onto the rail to keep her balance.
He swung around, almost losing his balance.
14. off balance phrase
If you are thrown off balance by something, you are surprised or confused by it.
She was trying to behave as if his visit hadn't thrown her off balance.
15. off balance phrase
If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
A gust of wind knocked him off balance and he fell face down in the mud.
16. on balance phrase B2
You can say on balance to indicate that you are stating an opinion after considering all the relevant facts or arguments.
On balance he agreed with Christine.
Phrasal verbs:
balance out
phrasal verb
If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
Outgoings and revenues balanced out. [VERB PARTICLE]
The strenuous exercise undergone could balance out the increased calories. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
Idioms:
throw someone off balance
to suddenly confuse or surprise someone
She was trying to behave as if his visit hadn't thrown her off balance.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
in the balance
if a situation is in the balance, it is not clear what is going to happen
One of the judges had died unexpectedly and the choice of his successor was in the balance.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
tip the balance or tip the scales
to produce one result in a particular situation where, before, two possible results seemed equally likely
As the election looms, the two main parties appear so evenly matched that just one issue could tip the balance.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Collocations:
balance a budget
On such grimy detail rests the hopes of getting an orchestra, performers and enough audiences to balance the budget.
Times,Sunday Times
We need to propose some cuts to balance the budget, but the tradeoffs will be painful, so we read a book.
Christianity Today
They took the remainder of the bequest income to balance the budget.
Christianity Today
Taxes must never be raised, even though revenues are at 50-year lows and it's politically impossible to balance the budget by spending cuts alone.
Times, Sunday Times
We have always said we would not balance the budget on the backs of the world's poor.
Times, Sunday Times
balance a career
It was some reality in the contrast of trying to make it all work, having to balance a career and having a normal life.
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Flexibility in the workplace can be a huge relief to a person struggling to balance their career and home-life.
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She charmed sharp-elbowed television reporters, chatting about balancing a career and a family.
Times, Sunday Times
Balancing a career at the school with being a premier league and international referee.
The Sun
balance perfectly
Rev as a comedy though, gets the balance perfectly: of humour, humanity and honesty.
Times, Sunday Times
For a sail, the profile has two ends and thus the lateral air pressures are balanced perfectly.
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The boat was a delight to handle, and balanced perfectly.
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balance the scales
The first team to balance the scale won the event.
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Teams would take turns removing items attempting to balance the scale within a range.
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We must be deliberate in balancing the scales - and government needs to lead by example in this regard.
ST
I needed to balance the scales.
The Sun
But we have to balance the scales.
Houston Chronicle
balanced precariously
And it's only on very special occasions that he's seen without one of his outlandish hats (normally balanced precariously atop his head, cos that's the fashion, innit).
The Sun
The train derailed shortly before 8.53pm and was left balanced precariously on a 15-metre embankment.
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The rock appears to be balanced precariously on an outcrop of granite ledge.
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careful balance
This careful balance of insulin and blood sugar helps to tell our body when we are full and when we are hungry.
The Sun (2009)
cash balance
What's more, the cash balance in the offset account can be accessed at any time.
Times, Sunday Times
It also suspended dividend payments to preserve its cash balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday shareholders voted in favour of the company's first dividend payment, a 40p-a-share payout that will absorb about half of the $400 million cash balance.
Times, Sunday Times
At this level they sell on 16 times net earnings, which, allowing for the high cash balance, looks about right.
Times, Sunday Times
Let him have the experience of a larger cash balance to manage over a longer period.
Times, Sunday Times
chemical balance
You need that chemical balance - no matter how much yoga or exercise you do, sometimes it doesn't work.
The Sun
The alcohol in perfume begins to evaporate from the first spritz, which changes its chemical balance and eventually causes it to smell off.
The Sun
Every time you eat, the chemical balance of your blood changes.
Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, they achieved the chemical balance needed to make sure the quality would remain constant in booths situated in a wide variety of climates and conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
Warmer weather and anything but the perfect chemical balance mean that most of us end up with water that looks like green soup, or algae covering the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
competitive balance
In any case, as football has boomed over the past two decades, there's little evidence that the fans really care that much about competitive balance.
Times, Sunday Times
And we have a competitive balance, because of the salary-cap system.
Times, Sunday Times
It has real giants and sufficient competitive balance.
Times, Sunday Times
The emphasis should be on creating more competitive balance, not less.
Times, Sunday Times
It would be an easy way to add competitive balance.
Times, Sunday Times
correct balance
We have to find the correct balance between experience and youth.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In designing the original package we must acknowledge that we did not strike the correct balance.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
So you have to get the correct balance between buying the right player to make the squad stronger and giving opportunities to people who deserve it.
The Sun (2014)
credit card balance
Once home, he found a condolence letter and another from a debt-recovery firm seeking immediate payment of his credit card balance.
Times,Sunday Times
One in four respondents with a household income of more than £50,000 said they failed to clear their credit card balance every month.
Times,Sunday Times
This also makes it a great deal for people who rarely pay off their monthly credit card balance in full.
The Sun
I found that suspicious and checked my credit card balance.
Times, Sunday Times
It's also key the couple aim to clear their £5,000 credit card balance before the zero per cent rate expires.
The Sun
delicate balance
It's a delicate balance which most of you know instinctively.
Times,Sunday Times
This means that despite the scale of his triumph in the leadership contest, his reshuffle will be a delicate balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Relationships between management consultancies and the organisations that hire them can be a delicate balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Both candidates must find a delicate balance in any attempt to curb the power of the corporations, analysts say.
Times, Sunday Times
We say nature has a delicate balance - as if it were a mobile or a pyramid of cards - and that's wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
disrupt the balance
Once you start rescuing people, you disrupt the balance of power.
Times, Sunday Times
Prior to this, a delicate balance between the powers was maintained, whereby no one of them was allowed to disrupt this balance in their favour.
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A one bit error will disrupt the balance of marks and spaces; a second bit error may (or may not) bring the count back to 4 marks and 3 spaces.
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However, for conservation biologists working to avoid disrupting the balance between humans and their natural surroundings, there are some instructive parallels.
Smithsonian Mag
She explains that the characters in his books who are most in harmony with nature are the protagonists and those who disrupt the balance of nature are the antagonists.
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disturb the balance
Such a programme can, however, disturb the balance of the infection without eliminating it, often causing unforeseen problems.
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Black finally disturbs the balance, committing a definitive error.
Times, Sunday Times
This gives a clumsy appearance to the door, and disturbs the balance of an otherwise fine example of a door and doorcase.
Times, Sunday Times
But, again, you have to do that with football and you don't want to disturb the balances that are there in terms of the success of the sport.
Times, Sunday Times
Over time, the elements have disturbed this balance to a degree that the boulder can no longer be moved.
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ecological balance
The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We also understand better that sharks play vital roles in marine ecosystems, keeping an ecological balance that promotes diversity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He would also see the world's ecological balance changed in ways we still barely comprehend.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
You can help tip this ecological balance further - in your favour by general care of the herb garden.
Stickland, Sue Planning the Organic Herb Garden (1986)
Everyone knows how difficult it is to disturb the ecological balance of a family dynamic, but you need to find a way to challenge your father.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
emotional balance
In any level of love, this alters the emotional balance for the better.
The Sun
You can get the right emotional balance between give and take in all kinds of relationships.
The Sun
Walking on the lighter side of life restores emotional balance, so you'll be able to see who could be good for you.
The Sun
It makes me wonder how much an expensive education actually matters when it comes to emotional balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Finding the right emotional balance between give and take in love gets easier.
The Sun
ensure a balance
This means we must continually address how services are delivered to ensure a balance between first-class care and access to it.
Times, Sunday Times
In cases of tissue damage, for example, gatekeeper genes would ensure that balance of cell growth over cellular death remains in check.
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Various decrees attempt to ensure a balance between the needs of the two counties, although high-water conditions can cause temporary disagreements.
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In theory, but not in practice, the central planning system ensured a balance among the sectors throughout the economy.
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This ensured a balance between the two movements in the command structure.
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fair balance
Wages and prices remained in fair balance.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
There has to be a fair balance struck.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But we need reform to ensure a fairer balance between what they pay and what other taxpayers are expected to contribute.
The Sun (2011)
flavour balance
Taste and adjust the flavour balance with salt, pepper and honey or agave syrup.
Times, Sunday Times
Sweet and salty may be traditional but this bag has the flavour balance nailed.
The Sun
The first mouthful transported me back to the incredible precision of manufacture, the intense extraction of flavours balanced with a balletic élan — just perfect.
Times, Sunday Times
fragile balance
Woodland and garden types similarly need the right combinations of food, light, moisture and temperature - a fragile balance increasingly disrupted by climate change.
Times, Sunday Times
Operators with fragile balance sheets will fall.
Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, arbitrary use of the power of prorogation can unbalance the very fragile balance of power that exists between the different parts of government.
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global balance of
But have experts in the global balance of power missed the most obvious sign of all?
Times, Sunday Times
It confirmed the huge change in the global balance of power.
The Sun
State failure, extremists, increased competition for resources and the changing global balance of power will dictate why, where and how conflict occurs.
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healthy balance
It gets tricky, striking a healthy balance of compromise.
Christianity Today
To keep a healthy balance, make sure you're not using that 'daily' scrub any more than once a week.
The Sun
Can't we recognise the need for both and strike a healthy balance?
Times, Sunday Times
Are we keeping our lives in healthy balance for those who depend on us?
Christianity Today
I think it's all about getting a healthy balance.
The Sun
hormonal balance
That there is a connection between exercise and hormonal balance is obvious by its effect on periods, but this sign is often ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Women tend not to increase the size of their muscles to Herculean proportions since their hormonal balance is different from that of men.
Lycholat, Tony Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life (1987)
You can deal with the condition and help yourself to feel better by getting to grips with dietary and lifestyle changes to encourage hormonal balance.
Colette Harris, With Theresa Cheung PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome (2002)
hormone balance
There are 48 active ingredients, from marine collagen to probiotics, plus vitamins for hormone balance.
The Sun
Have you started taking a medication that could have affected your hormone balance?
The Sun
Blood vessels in the skin dilate because of changes in the hormone balance caused by liver disease.
The Sun
Tablets are sometimes used to alter your hormone balance.
The Sun
This could tie in with you noticing hair growth - some ovary problems cause a change in hormone balance.
The Sun
ideal balance
He once mused that his scientific and political interests had much in common, with physics and the dissident movement trying to identify the ideal balance between anarchy and order.
Times,Sunday Times
The title hit an ideal balance between micro-managing resources and watching your little citizens going about their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
There may never be an ideal balance between its sensational nature and its compositional genius.
Globe and Mail
She aims to create the ideal balance of east and west.
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His voice combined an attractive dark timbre with an ideal balance of diction and vocal placement.
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improve balance
Proprioception can be regained by working with physiotherapists to improve balance, coordination and flexibility, and spatial awareness.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
One group of 11 were trained for two days a week with 'multicomponent' exercises for strength and to improve balance.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It strengthens the legs and ankles while improving balance.
The Sun (2016)
Who it's good for Anyone who wants to tone up and improve balance and core stability.
The Sun (2017)
loan balance
The outstanding loan balance at the end of year five would be 26,000 lower if the actual rate was 2.5% and the applied rate was 5%.
Times, Sunday Times
If you can't avoid using company funds for personal costs, try to maintain a credit loan balance by reviewing transactions regularly and declaring a dividend in advance.
Times, Sunday Times
The bank had an outstanding loan balance of $109 billion at the end of 2018, accounting for about a third of its total loans for international projects.
Times, Sunday Times
The company, once laden with debt, has reduced its loan balance to just 30m.
Times, Sunday Times
The debt-to-income ratio (the ratio of the loan balance to gross monthly income) was a 37.0.
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maintain a balance
This is because they help to maintain a balance between themselves and the billions of harmful bacteria that also live there.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Wrong - maintaining a balance of blood sugar is the key.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The product claims to be a dietary support to maintain a balance of body fat to lean muscle.
The Sun (2012)
minimum balance
Interest payments will skyrocket if you pay the minimum balance on your credit card each month.
Christianity Today
Most require a minimum balance of 1,000 or 10,000 for their fixed-rate bonds, compared with 500 at some high street banks.
Times, Sunday Times
The opening deposit can be higher than the minimum balance (often 1).
Times, Sunday Times
Some institutions are raising the minimum balance required for a best-buy account.
Times, Sunday Times
However, both require a minimum balance of 3,600.
Times, Sunday Times
monthly balance
People who do not have a reg-ular payment going in, such as salary, must maintain an average monthly balance of more than 1,500.
Times, Sunday Times
Savings will earn 6 per cent interest on the monthly balance.
Times, Sunday Times
You have to fund the account with at least 500 a month or have an average monthly balance of 5,000.
Times, Sunday Times
After the first year, the accounts had an average monthly balance of approximately $800.
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mortgage balance
It expects 180,000 borrowers to be in arrears by 2.5 per cent of the mortgage balance or more by the end of this year.
Times, Sunday Times
Overpaying now will help to drive down the mortgage balance.
Times, Sunday Times
It expects that about 180,000 homeowners will have arrears worth 2.5 per cent or more of their outstanding mortgage balance, up from 175,000 last year.
Times, Sunday Times
However, they can be up to 5 per cent of your mortgage balance.
Times, Sunday Times
If they had kept their monthly payments at 917, they would have overpaid 18,100 of the capital, reducing their mortgage balance to 181,900 in two years.
Times, Sunday Times
natural balance
However, too much can clog pores and alter skin's natural balance.
The Sun
By inserting needles, the acupuncturist 'can stimulate the body's own healing response and help to restore its natural balance'.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a fantastic natural balance and poise.
Times, Sunday Times
But the story soon relocates to the countryside, where wizard and prince till the soil together and learn valuable life lessons about the earth and its natural balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Take command of the wide bars and let the bike's natural balance do the rest.
The Sun
negative balance
How will he know if a customer has a negative balance?
Times,Sunday Times
However, the negative balance of 18 per cent was less severe than previous surveys.
Times, Sunday Times
Our negative balance of trade has broken recent records.
Times, Sunday Times
A bank can't withdraw the money if it leaves the account holder with a negative balance.
Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, the environmental and life-quality degradation was in the negative balance.
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net balance
A net balance of 15.1 per cent of lenders said they expected further falls in the next three months.
Times, Sunday Times
Supply increased last month, too, albeit more modestly, with a net balance of 8% more surveyors reporting rising instructions to sell.
Times, Sunday Times
In the previous month a net balance of 10.8 per cent of surveyors reported an increase in prices.
Times, Sunday Times
A net balance of 41 per cent of companies reduced expenditure on adverts and marketing in the period.
Times,Sunday Times
A net balance of 40 per cent said they expected trading prospects for their companies to improve.
Times, Sunday Times
outstanding balance
Never use a cashback card to withdraw money because you will be charged a large fee and don't transfer an outstanding balance from another card.
Times, Sunday Times
Households qualify as being in arrears when unmade payments amount to 2.5 per cent of the outstanding balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Besides, most mortgages allow borrowers to overpay, usually up to 10 per cent of the outstanding balance, enabling them to reduce the repayment term.
Times, Sunday Times
The car was sold, leaving an outstanding balance, which was less than the arrears on the account.
Times, Sunday Times
Divide your outstanding balance by that amount then you know how long a 0% term you need.
The Sun
overall balance
The overall balance of satisfaction has fallen to 24 per cent - the lowest since 1994.
Times, Sunday Times
Employment and the growth in workers' wages play a part in the overall balance of supply and demand.
Times, Sunday Times
Employment plays a huge part in the overall balance of supply and demand.
Times, Sunday Times
When elections are as close as the 2015 election looks set to be, you aren't voting only for the party leadership, but for its overall balance.
Times, Sunday Times
It failed to adjust for the overall balance of a diet, for instance, meaning those with high protein diets might also have low intakes of fruit and vegetables.
Times, Sunday Times
perfect balance
It now strikes the perfect balance between workhorse and luxury wafter.
The Sun (2017)
He provided the perfect balance of experience, common sense and great humour.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The immovable and irresistible are poised in perfect balance.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
positive balance
I could argue that without the benefit of my positive balance, they would be even higher.
Times, Sunday Times
That gave a positive balance of 24 per cent, far above the 13 per cent that had been expected.
Times, Sunday Times
A positive balance of 8 per cent of firms said they were more optimistic than three months ago.
Times,Sunday Times
In export orders, the southeast scored a net positive balance of +39, the difference between the number of companies reporting a rise in orders and those reporting a decline.
Times,Sunday Times
Only 12 per cent of businesses said they were lower, giving a positive balance of 34 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
precarious balance
He worked on the far edge of sanity: his precarious balance, somehow miraculously maintained, was what gave his work such an edge.
Times, Sunday Times
Her characters are sleazy and murky, holding a precarious balance between tragedy and farce.
Times, Sunday Times
Given this precarious balance of wet and dry conditions, even a slight shift in the distribution of annual precipitation can have serious consequences.
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Although the land gives them enough to live on, the precarious balance has been upset by a long drought.
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In this context, axial refers to the invisible axis that comes into focus at the moment of precarious balance.
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preserve the balance
Construction throughout was similar, although to preserve the balance of the design, the wings were given a slight forward sweep.
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As a result, to preserve their balance in trees chimpanzees, like other primates in trees, often extended their wrists.
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While the dragons are more powerful, they act instinctively to preserve the balance.
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She seeks to preserve the balance of good and evil in magic.
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It also helps these communities find ways to make use of the natural resources available to them, helping to preserve the balance between local communities and their fragile natural environment.
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proper balance
In his life as in his theory, there was ambiguity over the proper balance between social and individual priorities.
The Times Literary Supplement
But how do we strike the proper balance between too much information and too little in a verbal footnote?
Christianity Today
It was incumbent upon a chancellor not to allow anything to fetter his discretion in striking a proper balance in today's climate.
Times, Sunday Times
This ranges from the tangible — money and possessions — to whether there's a proper balance in your closest relationships.
Times, Sunday Times
A pastor may enter a counseling relationship fully intending to maintain a proper balance between closeness and distance.
Christianity Today
reasonable balance
You've just got to hope they have a reasonable balance.
The Sun
For some, that would still be a reasonable balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Probably the middle of the past decade, when supply and demand were in reasonable balance.
Times, Sunday Times
This allowed a reasonable balance between aerodynamic performance, lift, and internal space for fuel and equipment.
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However, people are also cautioned to stay within the limits of reasonable balance and measure when following nature's urges.
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regain balance
He talked of his 'issues', of his need to stop following his every impulse, to learn restraint and regain balance.
Times, Sunday Times
If the low-cost carriers are to regain balance, they need massive growth in revenues.
Times, Sunday Times
When he resumed, he wobbled and had to bend his knees to regain balance.
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Miraculously, she was able to regain balance and enough leverage to reach safety.
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Flat ground provides time to regain balance after landing and more time to prepare for the next trick.
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restore a balance
The chancellor hinted after the recent public sector pay settlement that he would seek to restore the balance between public and private sector workers.
Times,Sunday Times
That implies high-street banks must lend materially more than they did even at the 2007 peak of the market to restore the balance.
Times, Sunday Times
However, removing these particles disturbs the equilibrium with the gases and new particles form to restore the balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Eventually ministers will have to try to restore some balance to the budget.
Times,Sunday Times
Worries about population increases are unfounded - nature will always have a way to restore a balance.
The Sun
right balance
So-called " first-class" proteins contain all the essential amino acids in the right balance.
MacIntyre, Anne M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It (1989)
It is not wrong to do big things like that as long as you have the right balance in your life.
The Sun (2013)
The best entrepreneurs have the right balance of inner certainty and self-deprecation to cope with problems and not lose their audacity and ambition.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
While his appetite for inquiry exceeded his skills in diplomacy, that is the right balance for the academic in public service.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But this is a rare exception: it strikes just the right balance.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
seek a balance
Since you can't abandon planning, seek a balance between sticking to existing arrangements and more farreaching objectives and going with the flow.
Times, Sunday Times
He will seek a balance in the burden of austerity shared by rich and poor, saying that everyone must pay.
Times, Sunday Times
Social issues greatly impact economic issues, and we must seek a balance on both.
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Because of this, cleaners seek a balance in feeding between ectoparasites and mucus or tissue.
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The law should seek that balance...
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sense of balance
Batsmen need to work on proprioception - your sense of balance and awareness of your body.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But when teams lose football games managers lose their sense of balance.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It helps to instil a sense of balance and perspective to life.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A great way to boost your sense of balance for jumping is with a wobble board (see kit bag).
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
shift the balance
A longer air campaign could shift the balance in favour of the rebels.
The Sun (2013)
New takeover rules will shift the balance of power
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This will shift the balance of care into the community and make the health service more locally accountable.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
tilt the balance
The clubs have agreed in principle to radical new rules which could tilt the balance of power away from the big spenders.
The Sun
So will the stamp-duty hike, in combination with the summer measures, tilt the balance in the housing market back towards first-time buyers?
Times, Sunday Times
We need to tilt the balance of taxation away from national government.
Times, Sunday Times
An opportunity to tilt the balance of opinion in the court will come later.
Times, Sunday Times
Or a gauntlet of strength, or a magic ring - something beyond our meagre capabilities to tilt the balance towards triumph and away from disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
upset the balance
Seems to upset the balance of the team.
Times, Sunday Times
Pollution has upset the balance of the garden.
Times, Sunday Times
Avoid looking down as this will upset your balance.
Times, Sunday Times
Television was bound to upset that balance by giving the viewer an advantage over not only the spectator, but the referee and linesmen.
Times, Sunday Times
So, when changes that influence your work or lifestyle threaten to upset the balance, you're tempted to back out.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 平衡, 使平衡
Japanese: バランス, 均衡をとる
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