| 单词 | balanced |
| 释义 | balanced (once / 728 pages) adj If something is balanced, it has equal proportions or a stable sense of balance. A balanced yoga pose is one in which you're not falling over constantly. A balanced gymnast won't fall off the balance beam, and a balanced team combines players' skills to form a stable, equitable group. Balanced information in a news report gives you the opposing sides of an issue, and a balanced diet includes some food from all the different nutritional groups. Balanced comes from the verb balance, "be equal with," from the noun form of the word, with its Old French root, balance, "scales for weighing." WORD FAMILYbalanced: balancedly+/balance: balanced, balancer, balances, balancing, counterbalance, imbalance, microbalance, overbalance, unbalance/balancer: balancers/balancing: balancings, self-balancing/counterbalance: counterbalanced, counterbalances, counterbalancing/imbalance: imbalanced, imbalances/overbalance: overbalanced, overbalances, overbalancing/unbalance: unbalanced, unbalances, unbalancing USAGE EXAMPLESMany, including the State of Iowa, are legally required to approve budgets that are balanced. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) When they were balanced this season, Washington was one of the league’s most dangerous offenses. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “We will work to repeal this top-down decision and replace it with one that garners local support and creates a balanced, win-win solution.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) adj being in a state of proper equilibrium the carefully balanced seesaw a properly balanced symphony orchestra a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history a balanced blend of whiskeys the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers Syn|Ant counterbalanced, counterpoised brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another harmonious, proportionate, symmetricalexhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities poisedmarked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action self-balancingof someone or something that balances himself or itself stablemaintaining equilibrium well-balancedin an optimal state of balance or equilibrium imbalanced, unbalanced being or thrown out of equilibrium labileliable to change |
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