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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fate of the whole party would hang in the balance for the ten minutes required to pass along that ridge.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Say, rather, into the region where we balance probabil-ities and choose the most likely.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But it will lead at least to solidarity, and balance of inter-ests,' said Ptitsin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took the balance by the middle, and when he lifted it up the day of the Achaeans sank; the death-fraught scale of the Achaeans settled down upon the ground, while that of the Trojans rose heavenwards.
-- But even so the Trojans could not rout the Achae-ans, who still held on; and as some honest hard-working woman weighs wool in her balance and sees that the scales be true, for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them till the time came when Jove gave the greater glory to Hector son of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A strange persuasion came upon me, that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The apparatus in the air is like a balance of mathematical precision.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She paid 40 rubles to the midwife for two months' board; 25 rubles it cost her to have the child taken away; 40 rubles the midwife borrowed of her to buy a cow with; the balance was spent on dresses, presents, etc., so that after the confinement she was practically penniless, and was compelled to look for a position.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
-- In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs.
-- And in a state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place.
-- Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Overworld people were to theirs.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The great art of riding, as I was saying, is to keep your balance properly.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for my mother, when we had carried her up to the hamlet, a little cold water and salts and that soon brought her back again, and she was none the worse for her terror, though she still continued to deplore the balance of the money.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What I want is a strange conjunction with you " he said quietly; "not meeting and mingling you are quite right but an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings as the stars balance each other."
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Jo had only known what a great happiness was waver-ing in the balance for one of them, she would have turned dove-like in a minute, but unfortunately, we don't have win-dows in our breasts, and cannot see what goes on in the minds of our friends.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never was anything more honourable than the proceed-ings upon this procuration; for in less than seven months I received a large packet from the survivors of my trustees, the merchants, for whose account I went to sea, in which were the following, particular letters and papers enclosed:- First, there was the account-current of the produce of my farm or plantation, from the year when their fathers had balanced with my old Portugal captain, being for six years; the balance appeared to be one thousand one hundred and seventy-four moidores in my favour.
-- Secondly, there was the account of four years more, while they kept the effects in their hands, before the gov-ernment claimed the administration, as being the effects of a person not to be found, which they called civil death; and the balance of this, the value of the plantation increasing, amounted to nineteen thousand four hundred and forty-six crusadoes, being about three thousand two hundred and forty moidores.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is nothing in this world more delightful than that middle state in which we mentally balance at times, possessed of the means, lured by desire, and yet deterred by conscience or want of decision.
-- He will not forever balance thus between good and evil.
-- To those who have never wavered in conscience, the predicament of the individual whose mind is less strongly constituted and who trembles in the balance between duty and desire is scarcely appreciable, unless graphically portrayed.
-- Given time enough, however, the balance becomes a sagging to the grave side.
-- Constant comparison between his old state and his new showed a balance for the worse, which produced a constant state of gloom or, at least, depression.
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