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单词 balancing act
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balancing act
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/us
/ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/
[usually singular]
adifficultsituationin which someone has totryto giveequalamountsofimportance,time,attention, etc. to two or more different things at the sametime:
Ifoundmyself having to do abalancingactbetweenworkandfamily.我发现自己必须努力在工作和家庭之间求得平衡。
Quicklyrespondingto anemergencysituationwithoutwastingtaxpayers'moneycan be adifficultbalancingact.
aperformancein which someoneentertainspeoplebybalancingindifficultpositions,especiallyhigh above theground, or bybalancingobjectsindifficultpositions; apersonwhoperformsthistypeofentertainment:
Theysingandaccompanythemselves onguitarwhileperformingabalancingact.
The showemployscontortionists,balancingacts, and aerialists.
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  • Hislawyerfacesadifficultbalancingact: if hisclientexpressesremorsefor hiscrimes, it would betantamountto anadmissionofguilt.
  • At myage,exercisingmybodyandallowingit torestis abalancingact.
  • Leadershiprequiresperformingbalancingactseveryday.
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(Definition ofbalancing actfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
balancing act
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/us
/ˈbæl.ən.sɪŋ ˌækt/
asituationin which apersontriesto givecareandattentionto two or moreactivitiesat the sametime
平衡的做法，平衡措施
Ifoundmyself having to do abalancingactbetweenworkandfamily.我发现自己必须努力在工作和家庭之间求得平衡。

Examplesofbalancing act

balancing act
This "balancingact" is the focus of the analysis to follow.
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This everyday phrase neatly encapsulates the moralbalancingactthat many grandparents face when confronted with the divorce of their children.
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Given the number of potentially important variables in bilingual production, issues of design will always be abalancingact.
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For example, it was vulnerable to attack from either side and had to perform a particularbalancingact.
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This hybrid identity is therefore presented as something of abalancingact.
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This is why some analysts believe that "the 'balancingact' is just that: an act" (p. 128).
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To recognize these processes at all requires a difficultbalancingact.
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Architecture is both a tightrope walk and abalancingact.
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Thisbalancingactcould hardly succeed, yet the government was confident that it would be able to control the process.
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Living with a person with dementia is a complexbalancingactthat is difficult to sustain.
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One way to understand thisbalancingactis to recognize that different people choose to frame the role of experiments differently.
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British socialization policy thus, in late 1947, involved a precariousbalancingact.
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Success at this task, essentially abalancingact, will require more than the somewhat piecemeal approach to privacy that currently exists.
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Of particular poignancy in thisbalancingactis the case of religious activity.
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Overall her story is of women's skill in pursuing abalancingactboth in the home and beyond it.
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