balance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 平衡; 天平; vt. 使平衡; 称; 权衡，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lucie should be spared the pain of sepa-ration; and her father, always reluctant to turn his thoughts towards the dangerous ground of old, should come to the 345knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin went to the steps, took a run from above as best he cold, and dashed down, preserving his balance in this unwonted movement with his hands.
-- "Anyway you make an offer, when your love is ripe or when the balance has completely turned between the two you are choosing from.
-- Levin suddenly lost his temper at these words, because at the bottom of his heart he was afraid that it was true--true that he was trying to hold the balance even between communism and the familiar forms, and that this was hardly possible.
-- I always feel there's no real balance of gain in my work on the land, and yet one does it....
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This elicited loud applause, in the midst of which the orchestra was just striking up a deafening air, when the pyramid tottered, the balance was lost, one of the lower noses vanished from the pyramid, and the human monument was shattered like a castle built of cards!
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One death, and a hundred lives in exchange it's simple arith-metic!Besides, what value has the life of that sickly, stupid, ill-natured old woman in the balance of existence!No more than the life of a louse, of a black-beetle, less in fact because the old woman is doing harm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether sea-goingpeople were short of money about that time, or were short of faithand preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that therewas but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorneyconnected with the bill-broking business, who offered two poundsin cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteedfrom drowning on any higher bargain.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole string of trailing individuals advanced in the completest balance of intention, like the remarkable creatures known as Chain Salp脙娄, which, distinctly organized in other respects, have one will common to a whole family.
-- That stillness, which struck casual observers more than anything else in his character and habit, and seemed so precisely like the rest of inanition, may have been the perfect balance of enormous antagonistic forces positives and negatives in fine adjustment.
-- Come, let's strike a balance with the twenty pounds, and be friends."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw Mr. Pumblechook balance his knife.
-- Nor was there any drawback on my little turret bedroom, beyond there being such a very thin ceiling between me and the flagstaff, that when I lay down on my back in bed, it seemed as if I had to balance that pole on my forehead all night.
-- In writing by post to Magwitch--in New South Wales--or in communicating with him through Provis, have the goodness to mention that the particulars and vouchers of our long account shall be sent to you, together with the balance; for there is still a balance remaining.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- The frog lay concealed till I was put into my boat, but then, seeing a resting- place, climbed up, and made it lean so much on one side, that I was forced to balance it with all my weight on the other, to prevent overturning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When you were my age,' resumed Tom, 'you hadn't a wrong balance to get right, and hadn't to dress afterwards.'
-- I pretended to put my balance away every night, but I didn't.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that long imprisonment here, and in her own long confinement to her room, did his mother find a balance to be struck?
-- She also stumbled, with a large balance of success against her failures, through various philanthropic recommendations to Try our Mixture, Try our Family Black, Try our Orange-flavoured Pekoe, challenging competition at the head of Flowery Teas; and various cautions to the public against spurious establishments and adulterated articles.
-- 'Don't name it, sir,' returned Plornish, 'it'll be ekally a pleasure an a it'l be ekally a pleasure and a ' Finding himself unable to balance his sentence after two efforts, Mr Plornish wisely dropped it.
-- This sum, Mr Clennam would be happy to learn, he had, through the promptitude of several friends who had a lively confidence in his probity, already raised, with the exception of a trifling balance of one pound seventeen and fourpence; the loan of which balance, for the period of one month, would be fraught with the usual beneficent consequences.
-- Observing that he made no sketch, however, and that he talked about business only, she began to have suspicions that he represented some creditor of her father's, the balance due to whom was noted in that pocket volume.
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