| 词汇 | balancing-act |
| 释义 | balancing act noun[ C ] uk /ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/ us /ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/ [ usually singular ] a difficult situation in which someone has to try to give equal amounts of importance, time, attention, etc. to two or more different things at the same time: 平衡的做法，平衡措施 I found myself having to do a balancing act between work and family.我发现自己必须努力在工作和家庭之间求得平衡。 Quickly responding to an emergency situation without wasting taxpayers' money can be a difficult balancing act. a performance in which someone entertains people by balancing in difficult positions, especially high above the ground, or by balancing objects in difficult positions; a person who performs this type of entertainment: They sing and accompany themselves on guitar while performing a balancing act. The show employs contortionists, balancing acts, and aerialists. Compare equilibrist Warning children about personal safety is a balancing act: how do you protect your children without frightening them? His lawyer faces a difficult balancing act: if his client expresses remorse for his crimes, it would be tantamount to an admission of guilt. At my age, exercising my body and allowing it to rest is a balancing act. Leadership requires performing balancing acts every day. Coping and not coping be left holding the babyidiom bear up bite bite off more than you can chewidiom buckle cut head hold juggling keep body and soul togetheridiom keep the wolf from the dooridiom keep your head above wateridiom keep/hold your end upidiom manage roll sink or swimidiom stretch to something stride subsist subsistence You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Spectacles & performances Entertainers in general Examples of balancing actbalancing act This "balancingact" is the focus of the analysis to follow. This everyday phrase neatly encapsulates the moral balancingact that many grandparents face when confronted with the divorce of their children. Given the number of potentially important variables in bilingual production, issues of design will always be a balancingact. For example, it was vulnerable to attack from either side and had to perform a particular balancingact. This hybrid identity is therefore presented as something of a balancingact. This is why some analysts believe that "the 'balancingact' is just that: an act" (p. 128). To recognize these processes at all requires a difficult balancingact. Architecture is both a tightrope walk and a balancingact. This balancingact could hardly succeed, yet the government was confident that it would be able to control the process. Living with a person with dementia is a complex balancingact that is difficult to sustain. One way to understand this balancingact is to recognize that different people choose to frame the role of experiments differently. British socialization policy thus, in late 1947, involved a precarious balancingact. Success at this task, essentially a balancingact, will require more than the somewhat piecemeal approach to privacy that currently exists. Of particular poignancy in this balancingact is the case of religious activity. Overall her story is of women's skill in pursuing a balancingact both in the home and beyond it. See all examples of balancing act These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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