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 counterbalance ['kauntә,bælәns]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 使平均, 使平衡, 使弥补

n. 平衡量, 平衡力, 势均力敌

[医] 等衡, 抗衡

[经] 平衡, 自动抵销


  1. His wife's calm nature act as a counterbalance to his excitability.
    他妻子生性从容不迫,这对他的易冲动的个性起著平衡作用。
  2. His wife's calm nature acts as a counterbalance to his excitability.
    他妻子的沉着冷静抵销了他的急性子脾气。
  3. His wife's calm nature act as a counterbalance to his excitability.
    他妻子生性从容不迫,这对他的易冲动的个性起著平衡作用。


counterbalance


Counterbalance \Coun`ter*bal"ance\ (-b?l"ans), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. {Counterbalanced} (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Counterbalancing}.]
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the
power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to
balance.

The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the
mercurial cylinder. --Boyle.

The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and
correct the influence of the study of nature. --Sir W.
Hamilton.


Counterbalance \Coun"ter*bal`ance\ (koun"t?r-b?l`ans), n.
A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing
another; as:
(a) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly
wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the
opposite side of the wheel.
(b) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a
drawbridge or a scale beam.

Money is the counterbalance to all other things
purchasable by it. --Locke.

  1. The Agnellis, who control Fiat S.p.A., have stated that they intend to branch out in the food and drink business, to move outside Italy and counterbalance their dependence on the cyclical auto industry.
  2. Instead, he said he was a citizen of the Commonwealth, a classification which has no legal status. Admiral Kasatonov argued that the fleet should not be divided, citing the need to counterbalance the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean.
  3. The system "will remain a dictatorship," he says, "until there is some sort of counterbalance to the Communist Party, some political alternative."
  4. Celac indicated that the nation needs a "counterbalance" to an expanded Soviet presence, following a visit Saturday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, according to Laber.
  5. The written word has played a huge role in Russia since the 19th century, when works by writers such as Pushkin and Tolstoy were a moral and spiritual counterbalance to the authoritarian rule of the Czars.
  6. NOTHING VENTURED by Robert J Kunze HarperCollins Dollars 22.95, 252 pages ROBERT KUNZE'S lively account of US venture capital provides a timely counterbalance to the poor press which the industry worldwide has received of late.
  7. The reaction of retailers to recent price declines could provide a partial counterbalance to downward pressure on futures prices.
  8. A UK investor's stake of 10 per cent to 20 per cent would counterbalance the Spanish and Italian stakes of 18.3 per cent each.
  9. Ivan Polozkov of Russia and Efrem Sokolov of Byelorussia are conservatives who would counterbalance reformers.
  10. Texas added hugely to the potential power and size of the slave states; Oregon would counterbalance Texas by adding to the number and weight of the free states.
  11. Bekesi said that in order to counterbalance the increased cost of living, spending on education and health would be increased by 40 percent.
  12. This led to the decision to keep most of the rest of the equipment visible as a counterbalance to the fridge.
  13. "This exhibition creates a counterbalance to the general climate of the time," Florou said in an interview. "People will be reminded that there is more to life than buying cars and building hotels.
  14. Nikolai Talensky, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and former editor of the Soviet General Staff journal "Military Thought," added in 1965 that it was quite possible to "counterbalance the absolute weapons of attack."
  15. Any operation involving ground moving requires the consultation of a "feng shui" expert, who surveys the site to determine the best place to put a heavy altar that will counterbalance any evil forces that might be released in the disruption of soil.
  16. The opposition parties also find themselves outnumbered by a further 100 members nominated by the armed forces (Abri). Parliament has proved to be an ineffective counterbalance to executive power.
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