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单词 juggle
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Definition of juggle in English:

juggle

verb ˈdʒʌɡ(ə)lˈdʒəɡəl
[with object]
  • 1Continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others.

    抛耍,(多个物品)不停抛接不使坠下

    Charles juggled five tangerines, his hands a frantic blur
    no object he can't juggle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We were juggling four and five about at one stage and that's one hell of a learning curve with just three weeks' experience but it was very exciting.
    • They tumble, juggle, balance, swing and hula hoop with a confidence and humour far beyond what you would expect for students of a tertiary course.
    • He tossed these turnips out to the audience, to prove that they weren't doctored, and he started juggling them when they were thrown back.
    • When Wee dropped one club out of reach, they continued juggling with the remaining five.
    • ‘Come on Drake, you can do it’ Emily said smugly while juggling five herself.
    • There will be the chance to learn to spin plates, juggle and handle a Diablo and children can also make their own juggling balls to take home to show Mum and Dad what you have learned.
    • Learning to juggle is a neat trick for the brain as well as the hands.
    • My son had started the morning by juggling apples and oranges recklessly and badly; one of the apples magically grew wings and cracked the dining room window.
    • In her youth, Aleila was a wild and rambunctious youngster who could juggle, toss, swallow, and even lie on swords.
    • He added more and more, until he was juggling at least twenty stones without hesitation, perfectly.
    • Roder, whose professional name is Kester the Jester, juggled and diaboloed his way to victory over a diverse field that included a poetry-reading Frenchwoman in the contest in Stoneleigh near Warwick.
    • Keiko shrugged and taking eight circus batons out of her sleeve, she lit the ends in the fireplace behind her and began juggling the fire sticks with ease in the same figure eight as Yuki.
    • Walk on stilts and barrels, create human pyramids, learn acrobatic and aerial skills, balance on a rola-bola and learn to juggle!
    • But most of the people in Dundas Square are watching a nearby busker, especially now that he's standing on a 10-foot ladder, juggling knives.
    • Goodwick DJ, Eugene French, spun discs between bands, but most of the spinning came from Circus Malarky, who cartwheeled, juggled and unicycled their way through the night.
    • The intersections become street-performing pitches, and crowds of hundreds watch someone escape from a straitjacket or juggle machetes or eat fire.
    • Four young Chinese performers each hold two sticks linked by a string and juggle, toss and balance a wooden spool, trying to outdo each other.
    1. 1.1 Cope with by adroitly balancing (several activities)
      力图使平衡,尽力应付
      she works full time, juggling her career with raising children

      她全职工作,既忙于事业又抚养孩子。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I've got so many activities and subjects to juggle I don't have time for other commitments.
      • Their career advancement slows while children are young, and juggling everything can be very challenging.
      • Instead of standing up to them and telling them to stick it, I just ended up juggling a complex number of lies.
      • What do you say to those employees who still have jobs and probably are juggling a few more duties?
      • As it is, the plot is busy - juggling a number of different conflicts, subplots, and miscellaneous characters that the movie could have done without.
      • She successfully juggles her two young children with a job which involves great stress and attention to detail.
      • What will I need to balance, juggle and organise?
      • Now, after juggling a three-year teaching degree course with the care of her daughter, she is set to take up her position at the front of the class.
      • In a survey of women aged 30 to 45 most said they were trying to juggle at least four tasks in a day.
      • They are constantly juggling the nation's many competing needs.
      • Many had to juggle work and home commitments in order to cope with a situation where children were on different mid-term breaks.
      • College staff are to get help juggling work with their private lives.
      • My mother, a process worker, juggled long working hours with raising a family.
      • Today, based in a large flat in Glasgow's West End with her partner Steve and sons Fergus and Owen, Mina juggles a number of smaller projects in addition to her book series.
      • Yes, we all still work day jobs and at times it's difficult to juggle a full-time band a full-time job.
      • Increasingly, students are trying to juggle getting an education and working.
      • Since moving to the Cotswolds she has juggled her successful writing career with running her own public relations company and looking after her growing family.
      • Now the father-of-three, who juggles working at a school with looking after his three children, is searching for 15 men to join a new slimming club.
      • It's more a measure of his ability that he can juggle both.
      • How can we juggle one more responsibility or volunteer activity in our lives?
    2. 1.2 Organize (information or figures) in order to give a particular impression.
      the average first-time buyer spends many hours juggling figures as they try to budget for their first home
      defence chiefs juggled the figures on bomb tests

      国防官员们虚报了炸弹试验的数字。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The main difference is that I knew Mr. Buck wasn't trying to juggle the numbers to arrive at a certain, desired conclusion.
      • The debate shouldn't just be how to juggle numbers.
      • I'm going to more or less take their advice, but probably juggle the numbers a bit.
      Synonyms
      misrepresent, tamper with, falsify, misstate, distort, change round, alter, manipulate, rig, massage, fudge
      informal fix, doctor, cook the books
      British informal fiddle
noun ˈdʒʌɡ(ə)lˈdʒəɡəl
  • An act of juggling.

    手技杂耍;平衡;虚报,谎报

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It tries to portray a juggle between characters and the situations and relationships they are involved in.
    • It was just a matter of organizing things, a bit of a juggle and a dance between childcare, meetings and contracts.
    • That sounds quite a juggle for community members to be able to do that, is that happening?
    • It's that big juggle that many of my readers know, with my life depending on fantastic nannies.
    • The challenge for Ginsberg was to figure out how to control all 62 devices in the show, a constant juggle to control the pieces and make them work together.
    • Administration Manager, David McKinnon, says life at his centre is a constant struggle and juggle.
    • I mean, it's a remarkable example of the great juggle that so many working women do today.
    • My partner Nigel is an actor, and it is a juggle between jobs and baby.
    • Life's a juggle, and you make the choices that suit your life.
    • And look, finally, do you think that either party understands the juggle that families face, particularly mothers, working mothers?

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'entertain with jesting, tricks, etc.'): back-formation from juggler, or from Old French jogler, from Latin joculari 'to jest', from joculus, diminutive of jocus 'jest'. Current senses date from the late 19th century.

Rhymes

smuggle, snuggle, struggle

Definition of juggle in US English:

juggle

verbˈjəɡəlˈdʒəɡəl
[with object]
  • 1Continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others, typically for the entertainment of others.

    抛耍,(多个物品)不停抛接不使坠下

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Four young Chinese performers each hold two sticks linked by a string and juggle, toss and balance a wooden spool, trying to outdo each other.
    • In her youth, Aleila was a wild and rambunctious youngster who could juggle, toss, swallow, and even lie on swords.
    • When Wee dropped one club out of reach, they continued juggling with the remaining five.
    • He added more and more, until he was juggling at least twenty stones without hesitation, perfectly.
    • The intersections become street-performing pitches, and crowds of hundreds watch someone escape from a straitjacket or juggle machetes or eat fire.
    • But most of the people in Dundas Square are watching a nearby busker, especially now that he's standing on a 10-foot ladder, juggling knives.
    • ‘Come on Drake, you can do it’ Emily said smugly while juggling five herself.
    • Keiko shrugged and taking eight circus batons out of her sleeve, she lit the ends in the fireplace behind her and began juggling the fire sticks with ease in the same figure eight as Yuki.
    • Goodwick DJ, Eugene French, spun discs between bands, but most of the spinning came from Circus Malarky, who cartwheeled, juggled and unicycled their way through the night.
    • Learning to juggle is a neat trick for the brain as well as the hands.
    • My son had started the morning by juggling apples and oranges recklessly and badly; one of the apples magically grew wings and cracked the dining room window.
    • Roder, whose professional name is Kester the Jester, juggled and diaboloed his way to victory over a diverse field that included a poetry-reading Frenchwoman in the contest in Stoneleigh near Warwick.
    • They tumble, juggle, balance, swing and hula hoop with a confidence and humour far beyond what you would expect for students of a tertiary course.
    • He tossed these turnips out to the audience, to prove that they weren't doctored, and he started juggling them when they were thrown back.
    • Walk on stilts and barrels, create human pyramids, learn acrobatic and aerial skills, balance on a rola-bola and learn to juggle!
    • We were juggling four and five about at one stage and that's one hell of a learning curve with just three weeks' experience but it was very exciting.
    • There will be the chance to learn to spin plates, juggle and handle a Diablo and children can also make their own juggling balls to take home to show Mum and Dad what you have learned.
    1. 1.1 Cope with by adroitly balancing.
      力图使平衡,尽力应付
      she works full time, juggling her career with raising children

      她全职工作,既忙于事业又抚养孩子。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • As it is, the plot is busy - juggling a number of different conflicts, subplots, and miscellaneous characters that the movie could have done without.
      • They are constantly juggling the nation's many competing needs.
      • I've got so many activities and subjects to juggle I don't have time for other commitments.
      • She successfully juggles her two young children with a job which involves great stress and attention to detail.
      • Many had to juggle work and home commitments in order to cope with a situation where children were on different mid-term breaks.
      • College staff are to get help juggling work with their private lives.
      • Their career advancement slows while children are young, and juggling everything can be very challenging.
      • Yes, we all still work day jobs and at times it's difficult to juggle a full-time band a full-time job.
      • Now the father-of-three, who juggles working at a school with looking after his three children, is searching for 15 men to join a new slimming club.
      • Today, based in a large flat in Glasgow's West End with her partner Steve and sons Fergus and Owen, Mina juggles a number of smaller projects in addition to her book series.
      • It's more a measure of his ability that he can juggle both.
      • In a survey of women aged 30 to 45 most said they were trying to juggle at least four tasks in a day.
      • What do you say to those employees who still have jobs and probably are juggling a few more duties?
      • Instead of standing up to them and telling them to stick it, I just ended up juggling a complex number of lies.
      • Now, after juggling a three-year teaching degree course with the care of her daughter, she is set to take up her position at the front of the class.
      • My mother, a process worker, juggled long working hours with raising a family.
      • Increasingly, students are trying to juggle getting an education and working.
      • How can we juggle one more responsibility or volunteer activity in our lives?
      • What will I need to balance, juggle and organise?
      • Since moving to the Cotswolds she has juggled her successful writing career with running her own public relations company and looking after her growing family.
    2. 1.2 Organize (information or figures) in order to give a particular impression.
      defense chiefs juggled the figures on bomb tests

      国防官员们虚报了炸弹试验的数字。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The main difference is that I knew Mr. Buck wasn't trying to juggle the numbers to arrive at a certain, desired conclusion.
      • I'm going to more or less take their advice, but probably juggle the numbers a bit.
      • The debate shouldn't just be how to juggle numbers.
      Synonyms
      misrepresent, tamper with, falsify, misstate, distort, change round, alter, manipulate, rig, massage, fudge
nounˈjəɡəlˈdʒəɡəl
  • An act of juggling.

    手技杂耍;平衡;虚报,谎报

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The challenge for Ginsberg was to figure out how to control all 62 devices in the show, a constant juggle to control the pieces and make them work together.
    • Life's a juggle, and you make the choices that suit your life.
    • I mean, it's a remarkable example of the great juggle that so many working women do today.
    • That sounds quite a juggle for community members to be able to do that, is that happening?
    • Administration Manager, David McKinnon, says life at his centre is a constant struggle and juggle.
    • It's that big juggle that many of my readers know, with my life depending on fantastic nannies.
    • It was just a matter of organizing things, a bit of a juggle and a dance between childcare, meetings and contracts.
    • And look, finally, do you think that either party understands the juggle that families face, particularly mothers, working mothers?
    • My partner Nigel is an actor, and it is a juggle between jobs and baby.
    • It tries to portray a juggle between characters and the situations and relationships they are involved in.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘entertain with jesting, tricks, etc.’): back-formation from juggler, or from Old French jogler, from Latin joculari ‘to jest’, from joculus, diminutive of jocus ‘jest’. Current senses date from the late 19th century.

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