| 单词 | to redress the balance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto redress the balance d. transitive. to redress the balance and variants: to restore equilibrium; to readjust or put right an uneven or inequitable situation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > balance or be balanced > restore to balance recovera1425 to redress the balance1826 1826 Examiner 17 Dec. 807/1 He had obtained compensation, by calling a new world into political existence, and thus redressing the balance of power. 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 87 [He] sees aloft the red right arm Redress the eternal scales. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §5. 197 At an earlier time the personal greatness of Edward might have redressed the balance. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon iv. 91 In nothing has the whirligig of time so redressed the balance between the sexes as in this business of getting up in the morning. 1960 N. Pevsner Pioneers of Modern Design (rev. ed.) vii. 203 The metal frame projecting its sharp corners above these stone pylons redresses the balance boldly and effectively. 1992 InterCity Mag. Feb. 11/2 If British entrepreneurism does not itself become a casualty of the recession—a very real risk—it will do much to redress the balance in our favour. < as lemmas |
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