Definition of counterpoise in English:

counterpoise

noun ˈkaʊntəpɔɪzˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪz

1A factor or force that balances or neutralizes another.
中和因素；平衡力；抗衡影响
the organization sees the power of Brussels as a counterpoise to that of London
该组织视布鲁塞尔为伦敦的抗衡力量。
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus was conjured up the myth of the Anglo-Saxon supremacy and its counterpoise, the rapid descent of the degenerate post-Roman Britons back to the mud huts and pig sties from which their Italian masters had briefly roused them.
- In this respect, the dog again acts as a counterpoise to the men.
- Mr Sparrow said the site was the only green space in a largely built-up area and had, until recent ‘unsympathetic’ pruning, been a ‘green counterpoise to the surrounding buildings’.
- The United States is almost invariably held up as a shining counterpoise to this profligacy.
- This is original stuff, and makes the book a useful counterpoise to my favourite architectural history book, Nervi's Aesthetics and Technology in Building.
- Likewise, the volume as a whole enacts a delicate counterpoise between powerful natural drives and equally urgent human discipline.
- Every melodic figure had its replica, every phrase, its counterpoise in his music.
- The Don's barely understood emotional meandering is the counterpoise and counterpoint to Kitri's rational love for Basilo.
- The European Union, meanwhile, is patiently assembling the economic girth and institutional confidence to act as the leading counterpoise to Washington.
- Down These Mean Streets thus offers an interesting counterpoise to Appiah's critique of Du Bois, and to all searches for a ‘purified’ discourse of race.
- He will be a fitting counterpoise to Hindu, and for that matter any other communalism, and a persuasive harbinger of the Indian version of secularism.
- As a course offering, it would perhaps be more useful at the graduate level as a supplement and counterpoise to more traditional thinking on the subject.
- As Costello's political star rose quickly, the media needed a counterpoise.
- Here, then, in the balance of the hands, is illustrated a counterpoise of creation and destruction in the play of the cosmic dance.
- From the clerical perspective, the lavish liturgical choir never received the counterpoise of an extended processional approach.
- At the end you are mesmerised by the linear rhythm and the counterpoise of the relief.
- Since the Long Parliament and those of the interregnum had abused their authority as freely as Charles I had done, it seemed pointless to build them up as a counterpoise to the Crown.
Synonyms
balance, symmetry, equipoise, parity, equality, evenness
1. 1.1 A counterbalancing weight.
  衡重体，砝码
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are more wheels and counterpoises in this engine than are easily imagined.
  Synonyms
  counterweight, counterbalance, balance
2. 1.2 A state of equilibrium.
  〈古〉均衡，平衡（状态）
  the building stands in counterpoise to a Roman temple
  Example sentencesExamples
  In counterpoise was the domestic political imperative to avoid the impression that this raid represented a widening of the war, especially given that since July 1968 there had been a two-year bombing pause over North Vietnam.
  These curve in counterpoise to the curve of the shell, enhancing the reciprocal nature of the two structures.
  Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian pursued the poetics of counterpoise in their art.
  In 1980, it seemed, these two attitudes were in perfect counterpoise.
  Though he goes into great detail about the complexities of the rhetoric of self in counterpoise with society, Vasquez seems to leave the dichotomy intact, giving us a sense of two disparate rhetorical models.
  Synonyms
  equilibrium, balance, evenness, symmetry, parity, equality, equity

verb ˈkaʊntəpɔɪzˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪz

[with object]

1Have an opposing and balancing effect on.
抵消，中和；使平衡；使均衡
they make a delightful couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality
Example sentencesExamples
- Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
- But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another.
- The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor.
- The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
- High-end shopping is not very democratic either: excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other.
- Now, just as then, the desperation of the poor counterpoises the obscene consumption of the rich.
- And of course these words are counterpoised by the equally strong judgments implied in the language of sacrifice and patriotism-unless we interpret these as hopelessly undermined by the context.
- The reading room and its semi-elliptical extension are clad in monochromely pale Spanish stone counterpoised to the Portland stone of the Classical facades, in which patching is deliberately clearly visible.
- Only then will you attain that precious spiritual satisfaction that accompanies the precise counterpoising of your Yin and Yang elements.
- Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
- In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture.
Synonyms
balance, balance out, counterbalance, counteract, countervail, make up for, offset, cancel out, neutralize, nullify, even up, square up
1. 1.1 Bring into contrast.
  使形成对照；把…作对比
  the stories counterpoise a young recruit with an old-timer
  故事把年轻的新手与老手作对比。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The malevolent English Judge Jeffreys is counterpoised with an Irish version, John Toler Norbury.
  There is an element of simplistic categorization in portraying the upper class Raj and his family as decadent, and counterpoising Prem and his family as morally good.
  Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds.
  Placed against a deep and vibrant golden background, a couple is locked in an embrace on the very edge of a flower-strewn, carpet-like meadow, and their hazardous position is counterpoised in a protective halo of gleaming gold.
  Silverman counterpoised an ‘action frame of reference’ to the open systems contingency perspective that was by now dominant in organization analysis.
  It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.
  Later students seem to have copied Kuniyoshi's set as much to ride the coattails of his commercial success as to learn his techniques for counterpoising and balancing figures in action.
  The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium.
  In one excellent slow-motion scene his brutal vandalism is counterpoised with his young sister's performance in the glitzy pre-teen dance troupe Sparkle Motion.
  In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite (and often physically disabled) opponent.
  The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt.
  He counterpoises the harsh reds and oranges on the right - the side of the tug and the setting sun - with beautiful pale and ghostly harmonies on the left - the side of the old ship and a sickle moon.
  Social Darwinism counterpoises superstition/ritual with science/technology and darker skin/exotic clothes with lighter skin / Western clothes.
  The truth-telling capacities of the (literal and figurative) glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism.
  Anti-Enlightenment philosophy had a great influence on 19th-century Romanticism, which repudiated reason in favour of nature worship, and counterpoised the genius of the artist to mass mediocrity.
  Part of the chypre (dry, smoky or warm balsamic leather accords counterpoised with a fresh top note) family, it is quietly magnetic at first.
  Each has a two-sided composition: one half contains delicate open patterns, designs, scratches, stripes, and latticework and is counterpoised with a darker, more heavily worked half that implies more hidden within.
  It is tempting to counterpoise the radical 1960s to the conservative 1950s.
  It is like a 1950s architectural concept: a miniature solid glass skyscraper counterpoised against a black granite box (which conceals a ventilation shaft for the Jubilee Line).
  Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties.
  Those social scientists who did not succumb to Grunberg and Eagle's descriptions of exotic shelter subcultures generally counterpoised sensationalist deviance with proof of the persistence of normal life in the shelter.
  As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality.
  The immateriality of the inserted structures is induced by height and length, and by being counterpoised against the massive masonry wall, its thickness displayed in the deep reveals of small square windows set high above the ground.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French contrepois from contre 'against' + pois from Latin pensum 'weight'. Compare with poise¹. The verb, originally counterpeise, from Old French contrepeser, was altered under the influence of the noun in the 16th century.

Definition of counterpoise in US English:

counterpoise

nounˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪzˈkoun(t)ərˌpoiz

1A factor, force, or influence that balances or neutralizes another.
中和因素；平衡力；抗衡影响
they see the power of Brussels as a counterpoise to that of London
该组织视布鲁塞尔为伦敦的抗衡力量。
money is a good counterpoise to beauty
Example sentencesExamples
- The European Union, meanwhile, is patiently assembling the economic girth and institutional confidence to act as the leading counterpoise to Washington.
- Mr Sparrow said the site was the only green space in a largely built-up area and had, until recent ‘unsympathetic’ pruning, been a ‘green counterpoise to the surrounding buildings’.
- The United States is almost invariably held up as a shining counterpoise to this profligacy.
- He will be a fitting counterpoise to Hindu, and for that matter any other communalism, and a persuasive harbinger of the Indian version of secularism.
- As Costello's political star rose quickly, the media needed a counterpoise.
- Every melodic figure had its replica, every phrase, its counterpoise in his music.
- In this respect, the dog again acts as a counterpoise to the men.
- The Don's barely understood emotional meandering is the counterpoise and counterpoint to Kitri's rational love for Basilo.
- As a course offering, it would perhaps be more useful at the graduate level as a supplement and counterpoise to more traditional thinking on the subject.
- Here, then, in the balance of the hands, is illustrated a counterpoise of creation and destruction in the play of the cosmic dance.
- Down These Mean Streets thus offers an interesting counterpoise to Appiah's critique of Du Bois, and to all searches for a ‘purified’ discourse of race.
- From the clerical perspective, the lavish liturgical choir never received the counterpoise of an extended processional approach.
- Likewise, the volume as a whole enacts a delicate counterpoise between powerful natural drives and equally urgent human discipline.
- This is original stuff, and makes the book a useful counterpoise to my favourite architectural history book, Nervi's Aesthetics and Technology in Building.
- Thus was conjured up the myth of the Anglo-Saxon supremacy and its counterpoise, the rapid descent of the degenerate post-Roman Britons back to the mud huts and pig sties from which their Italian masters had briefly roused them.
- Since the Long Parliament and those of the interregnum had abused their authority as freely as Charles I had done, it seemed pointless to build them up as a counterpoise to the Crown.
- At the end you are mesmerised by the linear rhythm and the counterpoise of the relief.
Synonyms
balance, symmetry, equipoise, parity, equality, evenness
1. 1.1 A counterbalancing weight.
  衡重体，砝码
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are more wheels and counterpoises in this engine than are easily imagined.
  Synonyms
  counterweight, counterbalance, balance
2. 1.2 A state of equilibrium.
  〈古〉均衡，平衡（状态）
  Example sentencesExamples
  These curve in counterpoise to the curve of the shell, enhancing the reciprocal nature of the two structures.
  Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian pursued the poetics of counterpoise in their art.
  In counterpoise was the domestic political imperative to avoid the impression that this raid represented a widening of the war, especially given that since July 1968 there had been a two-year bombing pause over North Vietnam.
  Though he goes into great detail about the complexities of the rhetoric of self in counterpoise with society, Vasquez seems to leave the dichotomy intact, giving us a sense of two disparate rhetorical models.
  In 1980, it seemed, these two attitudes were in perfect counterpoise.
  Synonyms
  equilibrium, balance, evenness, symmetry, parity, equality, equity

verbˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪzˈkoun(t)ərˌpoiz

[with object]

1Have an opposing and balancing effect on.
抵消，中和；使平衡；使均衡
excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other
Example sentencesExamples
- High-end shopping is not very democratic either: excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other.
- Only then will you attain that precious spiritual satisfaction that accompanies the precise counterpoising of your Yin and Yang elements.
- In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture.
- But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another.
- And of course these words are counterpoised by the equally strong judgments implied in the language of sacrifice and patriotism-unless we interpret these as hopelessly undermined by the context.
- The reading room and its semi-elliptical extension are clad in monochromely pale Spanish stone counterpoised to the Portland stone of the Classical facades, in which patching is deliberately clearly visible.
- The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor.
- Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
- The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
- Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
- Now, just as then, the desperation of the poor counterpoises the obscene consumption of the rich.
Synonyms
balance, balance out, counterbalance, counteract, countervail, make up for, offset, cancel out, neutralize, nullify, even up, square up
1. 1.1 Bring into contrast.
  使形成对照；把…作对比
  the stories counterpoise a young recruit with an old-timer
  故事把年轻的新手与老手作对比。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The immateriality of the inserted structures is induced by height and length, and by being counterpoised against the massive masonry wall, its thickness displayed in the deep reveals of small square windows set high above the ground.
  The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium.
  Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds.
  Later students seem to have copied Kuniyoshi's set as much to ride the coattails of his commercial success as to learn his techniques for counterpoising and balancing figures in action.
  As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality.
  It is like a 1950s architectural concept: a miniature solid glass skyscraper counterpoised against a black granite box (which conceals a ventilation shaft for the Jubilee Line).
  Social Darwinism counterpoises superstition/ritual with science/technology and darker skin/exotic clothes with lighter skin / Western clothes.
  The malevolent English Judge Jeffreys is counterpoised with an Irish version, John Toler Norbury.
  Those social scientists who did not succumb to Grunberg and Eagle's descriptions of exotic shelter subcultures generally counterpoised sensationalist deviance with proof of the persistence of normal life in the shelter.
  In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite (and often physically disabled) opponent.
  Placed against a deep and vibrant golden background, a couple is locked in an embrace on the very edge of a flower-strewn, carpet-like meadow, and their hazardous position is counterpoised in a protective halo of gleaming gold.
  Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties.
  It is tempting to counterpoise the radical 1960s to the conservative 1950s.
  In one excellent slow-motion scene his brutal vandalism is counterpoised with his young sister's performance in the glitzy pre-teen dance troupe Sparkle Motion.
  Silverman counterpoised an ‘action frame of reference’ to the open systems contingency perspective that was by now dominant in organization analysis.
  Part of the chypre (dry, smoky or warm balsamic leather accords counterpoised with a fresh top note) family, it is quietly magnetic at first.
  The truth-telling capacities of the (literal and figurative) glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism.
  Each has a two-sided composition: one half contains delicate open patterns, designs, scratches, stripes, and latticework and is counterpoised with a darker, more heavily worked half that implies more hidden within.
  The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt.
  There is an element of simplistic categorization in portraying the upper class Raj and his family as decadent, and counterpoising Prem and his family as morally good.
  Anti-Enlightenment philosophy had a great influence on 19th-century Romanticism, which repudiated reason in favour of nature worship, and counterpoised the genius of the artist to mass mediocrity.
  He counterpoises the harsh reds and oranges on the right - the side of the tug and the setting sun - with beautiful pale and ghostly harmonies on the left - the side of the old ship and a sickle moon.
  It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French contrepois from contre ‘against’ + pois from Latin pensum ‘weight’. Compare with poise. The verb, originally counterpeise, from Old French contrepeser, was altered under the influence of the noun in the 16th century.

单词	counterpoise
释义	Definition of counterpoise in English: counterpoise noun ˈkaʊntəpɔɪzˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪz 1A factor or force that balances or neutralizes another. 中和因素；平衡力；抗衡影响 the organization sees the power of Brussels as a counterpoise to that of London 该组织视布鲁塞尔为伦敦的抗衡力量。 Example sentencesExamples Thus was conjured up the myth of the Anglo-Saxon supremacy and its counterpoise, the rapid descent of the degenerate post-Roman Britons back to the mud huts and pig sties from which their Italian masters had briefly roused them. In this respect, the dog again acts as a counterpoise to the men. Mr Sparrow said the site was the only green space in a largely built-up area and had, until recent ‘unsympathetic’ pruning, been a ‘green counterpoise to the surrounding buildings’. The United States is almost invariably held up as a shining counterpoise to this profligacy. This is original stuff, and makes the book a useful counterpoise to my favourite architectural history book, Nervi's Aesthetics and Technology in Building. Likewise, the volume as a whole enacts a delicate counterpoise between powerful natural drives and equally urgent human discipline. Every melodic figure had its replica, every phrase, its counterpoise in his music. The Don's barely understood emotional meandering is the counterpoise and counterpoint to Kitri's rational love for Basilo. The European Union, meanwhile, is patiently assembling the economic girth and institutional confidence to act as the leading counterpoise to Washington. Down These Mean Streets thus offers an interesting counterpoise to Appiah's critique of Du Bois, and to all searches for a ‘purified’ discourse of race. He will be a fitting counterpoise to Hindu, and for that matter any other communalism, and a persuasive harbinger of the Indian version of secularism. As a course offering, it would perhaps be more useful at the graduate level as a supplement and counterpoise to more traditional thinking on the subject. As Costello's political star rose quickly, the media needed a counterpoise. Here, then, in the balance of the hands, is illustrated a counterpoise of creation and destruction in the play of the cosmic dance. From the clerical perspective, the lavish liturgical choir never received the counterpoise of an extended processional approach. At the end you are mesmerised by the linear rhythm and the counterpoise of the relief. Since the Long Parliament and those of the interregnum had abused their authority as freely as Charles I had done, it seemed pointless to build them up as a counterpoise to the Crown. Synonyms balance, symmetry, equipoise, parity, equality, evenness 1.1 A counterbalancing weight. 衡重体，砝码 Example sentencesExamples There are more wheels and counterpoises in this engine than are easily imagined. Synonyms counterweight, counterbalance, balance 1.2 A state of equilibrium. 〈古〉均衡，平衡（状态） the building stands in counterpoise to a Roman temple Example sentencesExamples In counterpoise was the domestic political imperative to avoid the impression that this raid represented a widening of the war, especially given that since July 1968 there had been a two-year bombing pause over North Vietnam. These curve in counterpoise to the curve of the shell, enhancing the reciprocal nature of the two structures. Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian pursued the poetics of counterpoise in their art. In 1980, it seemed, these two attitudes were in perfect counterpoise. Though he goes into great detail about the complexities of the rhetoric of self in counterpoise with society, Vasquez seems to leave the dichotomy intact, giving us a sense of two disparate rhetorical models. Synonyms equilibrium, balance, evenness, symmetry, parity, equality, equity verb ˈkaʊntəpɔɪzˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪz [with object] 1Have an opposing and balancing effect on. 抵消，中和；使平衡；使均衡 they make a delightful couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality Example sentencesExamples Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory. But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another. The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor. The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality. High-end shopping is not very democratic either: excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other. Now, just as then, the desperation of the poor counterpoises the obscene consumption of the rich. And of course these words are counterpoised by the equally strong judgments implied in the language of sacrifice and patriotism-unless we interpret these as hopelessly undermined by the context. The reading room and its semi-elliptical extension are clad in monochromely pale Spanish stone counterpoised to the Portland stone of the Classical facades, in which patching is deliberately clearly visible. Only then will you attain that precious spiritual satisfaction that accompanies the precise counterpoising of your Yin and Yang elements. Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood. In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture. Synonyms balance, balance out, counterbalance, counteract, countervail, make up for, offset, cancel out, neutralize, nullify, even up, square up 1.1 Bring into contrast. 使形成对照；把…作对比 the stories counterpoise a young recruit with an old-timer 故事把年轻的新手与老手作对比。 Example sentencesExamples The malevolent English Judge Jeffreys is counterpoised with an Irish version, John Toler Norbury. There is an element of simplistic categorization in portraying the upper class Raj and his family as decadent, and counterpoising Prem and his family as morally good. Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds. Placed against a deep and vibrant golden background, a couple is locked in an embrace on the very edge of a flower-strewn, carpet-like meadow, and their hazardous position is counterpoised in a protective halo of gleaming gold. Silverman counterpoised an ‘action frame of reference’ to the open systems contingency perspective that was by now dominant in organization analysis. It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls. Later students seem to have copied Kuniyoshi's set as much to ride the coattails of his commercial success as to learn his techniques for counterpoising and balancing figures in action. The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium. In one excellent slow-motion scene his brutal vandalism is counterpoised with his young sister's performance in the glitzy pre-teen dance troupe Sparkle Motion. In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite (and often physically disabled) opponent. The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt. He counterpoises the harsh reds and oranges on the right - the side of the tug and the setting sun - with beautiful pale and ghostly harmonies on the left - the side of the old ship and a sickle moon. Social Darwinism counterpoises superstition/ritual with science/technology and darker skin/exotic clothes with lighter skin / Western clothes. The truth-telling capacities of the (literal and figurative) glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism. Anti-Enlightenment philosophy had a great influence on 19th-century Romanticism, which repudiated reason in favour of nature worship, and counterpoised the genius of the artist to mass mediocrity. Part of the chypre (dry, smoky or warm balsamic leather accords counterpoised with a fresh top note) family, it is quietly magnetic at first. Each has a two-sided composition: one half contains delicate open patterns, designs, scratches, stripes, and latticework and is counterpoised with a darker, more heavily worked half that implies more hidden within. It is tempting to counterpoise the radical 1960s to the conservative 1950s. It is like a 1950s architectural concept: a miniature solid glass skyscraper counterpoised against a black granite box (which conceals a ventilation shaft for the Jubilee Line). Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties. Those social scientists who did not succumb to Grunberg and Eagle's descriptions of exotic shelter subcultures generally counterpoised sensationalist deviance with proof of the persistence of normal life in the shelter. As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. The immateriality of the inserted structures is induced by height and length, and by being counterpoised against the massive masonry wall, its thickness displayed in the deep reveals of small square windows set high above the ground. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French contrepois from contre 'against' + pois from Latin pensum 'weight'. Compare with poise¹. The verb, originally counterpeise, from Old French contrepeser, was altered under the influence of the noun in the 16th century. Definition of counterpoise in US English: counterpoise nounˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪzˈkoun(t)ərˌpoiz 1A factor, force, or influence that balances or neutralizes another. 中和因素；平衡力；抗衡影响 they see the power of Brussels as a counterpoise to that of London 该组织视布鲁塞尔为伦敦的抗衡力量。 money is a good counterpoise to beauty Example sentencesExamples The European Union, meanwhile, is patiently assembling the economic girth and institutional confidence to act as the leading counterpoise to Washington. Mr Sparrow said the site was the only green space in a largely built-up area and had, until recent ‘unsympathetic’ pruning, been a ‘green counterpoise to the surrounding buildings’. The United States is almost invariably held up as a shining counterpoise to this profligacy. He will be a fitting counterpoise to Hindu, and for that matter any other communalism, and a persuasive harbinger of the Indian version of secularism. As Costello's political star rose quickly, the media needed a counterpoise. Every melodic figure had its replica, every phrase, its counterpoise in his music. In this respect, the dog again acts as a counterpoise to the men. The Don's barely understood emotional meandering is the counterpoise and counterpoint to Kitri's rational love for Basilo. As a course offering, it would perhaps be more useful at the graduate level as a supplement and counterpoise to more traditional thinking on the subject. Here, then, in the balance of the hands, is illustrated a counterpoise of creation and destruction in the play of the cosmic dance. Down These Mean Streets thus offers an interesting counterpoise to Appiah's critique of Du Bois, and to all searches for a ‘purified’ discourse of race. From the clerical perspective, the lavish liturgical choir never received the counterpoise of an extended processional approach. Likewise, the volume as a whole enacts a delicate counterpoise between powerful natural drives and equally urgent human discipline. This is original stuff, and makes the book a useful counterpoise to my favourite architectural history book, Nervi's Aesthetics and Technology in Building. Thus was conjured up the myth of the Anglo-Saxon supremacy and its counterpoise, the rapid descent of the degenerate post-Roman Britons back to the mud huts and pig sties from which their Italian masters had briefly roused them. Since the Long Parliament and those of the interregnum had abused their authority as freely as Charles I had done, it seemed pointless to build them up as a counterpoise to the Crown. At the end you are mesmerised by the linear rhythm and the counterpoise of the relief. Synonyms balance, symmetry, equipoise, parity, equality, evenness 1.1 A counterbalancing weight. 衡重体，砝码 Example sentencesExamples There are more wheels and counterpoises in this engine than are easily imagined. Synonyms counterweight, counterbalance, balance 1.2 A state of equilibrium. 〈古〉均衡，平衡（状态） Example sentencesExamples These curve in counterpoise to the curve of the shell, enhancing the reciprocal nature of the two structures. Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian pursued the poetics of counterpoise in their art. In counterpoise was the domestic political imperative to avoid the impression that this raid represented a widening of the war, especially given that since July 1968 there had been a two-year bombing pause over North Vietnam. Though he goes into great detail about the complexities of the rhetoric of self in counterpoise with society, Vasquez seems to leave the dichotomy intact, giving us a sense of two disparate rhetorical models. In 1980, it seemed, these two attitudes were in perfect counterpoise. Synonyms equilibrium, balance, evenness, symmetry, parity, equality, equity verbˈkaʊn(t)ərˌpɔɪzˈkoun(t)ərˌpoiz [with object] 1Have an opposing and balancing effect on. 抵消，中和；使平衡；使均衡 excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other Example sentencesExamples High-end shopping is not very democratic either: excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other. Only then will you attain that precious spiritual satisfaction that accompanies the precise counterpoising of your Yin and Yang elements. In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture. But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another. And of course these words are counterpoised by the equally strong judgments implied in the language of sacrifice and patriotism-unless we interpret these as hopelessly undermined by the context. The reading room and its semi-elliptical extension are clad in monochromely pale Spanish stone counterpoised to the Portland stone of the Classical facades, in which patching is deliberately clearly visible. The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor. Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood. The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality. Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory. Now, just as then, the desperation of the poor counterpoises the obscene consumption of the rich. Synonyms balance, balance out, counterbalance, counteract, countervail, make up for, offset, cancel out, neutralize, nullify, even up, square up 1.1 Bring into contrast. 使形成对照；把…作对比 the stories counterpoise a young recruit with an old-timer 故事把年轻的新手与老手作对比。 Example sentencesExamples The immateriality of the inserted structures is induced by height and length, and by being counterpoised against the massive masonry wall, its thickness displayed in the deep reveals of small square windows set high above the ground. The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium. Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds. Later students seem to have copied Kuniyoshi's set as much to ride the coattails of his commercial success as to learn his techniques for counterpoising and balancing figures in action. As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. It is like a 1950s architectural concept: a miniature solid glass skyscraper counterpoised against a black granite box (which conceals a ventilation shaft for the Jubilee Line). Social Darwinism counterpoises superstition/ritual with science/technology and darker skin/exotic clothes with lighter skin / Western clothes. The malevolent English Judge Jeffreys is counterpoised with an Irish version, John Toler Norbury. Those social scientists who did not succumb to Grunberg and Eagle's descriptions of exotic shelter subcultures generally counterpoised sensationalist deviance with proof of the persistence of normal life in the shelter. In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite (and often physically disabled) opponent. Placed against a deep and vibrant golden background, a couple is locked in an embrace on the very edge of a flower-strewn, carpet-like meadow, and their hazardous position is counterpoised in a protective halo of gleaming gold. Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties. It is tempting to counterpoise the radical 1960s to the conservative 1950s. In one excellent slow-motion scene his brutal vandalism is counterpoised with his young sister's performance in the glitzy pre-teen dance troupe Sparkle Motion. Silverman counterpoised an ‘action frame of reference’ to the open systems contingency perspective that was by now dominant in organization analysis. Part of the chypre (dry, smoky or warm balsamic leather accords counterpoised with a fresh top note) family, it is quietly magnetic at first. The truth-telling capacities of the (literal and figurative) glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism. Each has a two-sided composition: one half contains delicate open patterns, designs, scratches, stripes, and latticework and is counterpoised with a darker, more heavily worked half that implies more hidden within. The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt. There is an element of simplistic categorization in portraying the upper class Raj and his family as decadent, and counterpoising Prem and his family as morally good. Anti-Enlightenment philosophy had a great influence on 19th-century Romanticism, which repudiated reason in favour of nature worship, and counterpoised the genius of the artist to mass mediocrity. He counterpoises the harsh reds and oranges on the right - the side of the tug and the setting sun - with beautiful pale and ghostly harmonies on the left - the side of the old ship and a sickle moon. It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French contrepois from contre ‘against’ + pois from Latin pensum ‘weight’. Compare with poise. The verb, originally counterpeise, from Old French contrepeser, was altered under the influence of the noun in the 16th century.
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