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V-ERG
（使）保持平衡；（使）平穩
If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
例句
I balanced on the ledge...
我在窗臺上站穩。
He balanced a football on his head.
他將一只足球穩穩地頂在頭上。
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N-UNCOUNT
平衡能力
Balance is the ability to remain steady when you are standing up.
例句
The medicines you are currently taking could be affecting your balance.
你現在服用的藥物可能會影響身體的平衡能力。
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V-RECIP-ERG
使（力量、重要性等）相等；使均衡；使持平
If you balance one thing with something different, each of the things has the same strength or importance.
例句
Balance spicy dishes with mild ones...
做到辛辣菜和清淡菜比重相當。
The state has got to find some way to balance these two needs...
國家必須找出平衡這兩種需求的辦法。
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N-SING
（力量、重要性等的）均衡，均勢
A balance is a situation in which all the different parts are equal in strength or importance.
例句
Their marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values...
他們的婚姻在傳統和現代價值觀之間保持著微妙平衡。
There was no other way to ensure that people would get the right balance of foods.
沒有其他方法可以確保人們飲食均衡。
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N-SING
（尤指沖突或比賽中的）局面，勝利天平
If you say that the balance tips in your favour, you start winning or succeeding, especially in a conflict or contest.
例句
...a powerful new gun which could tip the balance of the war in their favour...
將使他們在戰爭中占據優勢的威力巨大的新型火炮
The balance continues to swing away from final examinations to continuous assessment.
期末考試漸漸被連續性評估所取代。
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VERB
權衡；對比；斟酌
If you balance one thing against another, you consider its importance in relation to the other one.
例句
She carefully tried to balance religious sensitivities against democratic freedom.
她謹慎地試圖對宗教情感和民主自由兩者作出權衡。
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VERB
使（預算、經濟等）平衡
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.
例句
He balanced his budgets by rigid control over public expenditure.
他通過嚴格控制公共開支保持預算平衡。
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V-ERG
結算（賬目）；（使）收支相等
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.
例句
...teaching them to balance the books...
教他們結平賬目
To make the books balance, spending must fall and taxes must rise.
為了使收支相等，必須減少支出，增加稅收。
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N-COUNT
（銀行賬戶的）余額，余數，結存
The balance in your bank account is the amount of money you have in it.
例句
I'd like to check the balance in my account please.
請查一下我的賬戶余額。
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N-SING
（錢款的）剩余部分
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.
例句
They were due to pay the balance on delivery.
他們應該在貨到時支付余額。
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PHRASE
懸而未決；待定
If something hangs in the balance, it is uncertain whether it will happen or continue.
例句
The fate of a project which could revolutionise the use of computers in hospitals hangs in the balance.
可能給醫院的計算機使用帶來革命的項目仍然前途未明。
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PHRASE
保持/失去平衡
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.
例句
She was holding onto the rail to keep her balance...
她抓住扶手以保持平衡。
He swung around, almost losing his balance.
他驀地轉身，差點失去平衡。
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PHRASE
（身體）失去平衡，幾近跌倒
If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
例句
A gust of wind knocked him off balance and he fell face down in the mud.
一陣大風刮得他失去平衡，臉朝下摔在泥里。
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PHRASE
驚慌失措；迷惑不解
If you are thrown off balance by something, you are surprised or confused by it.
例句
She was trying to behave as if his visit hadn't thrown her off balance.
她盡力裝作對他的造訪并不吃驚。
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PHRASE
權衡之后；全面考慮之后；總的來說
You can say on balance to indicate that you are stating an opinion after considering all the relevant facts or arguments.
例句
On balance he agreed with Christine.
總的來說，他同意克里斯蒂娜的意見。
Noun
1. a state of equilibrium
2. a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
3. equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
4. harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design);
"in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin5. equality of distribution
6. something left after other parts have been taken away;
"there was no remainder""he threw away the rest""he took what he wanted and I got the balance"7. the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
8. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
9. an equivalent counterbalancing weight
10. a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
Verb
1. bring into balance or equilibrium;
"She has to balance work and her domestic duties""balance the two weights"2. compute credits and debits of an account
3. hold or carry in equilibrium
4. be in equilibrium;
"He was balancing on one foot"