Balance of trade

Definition

balance /'bælǝns/ n ၁။ [U, sing] (က) ~ (in sth/ between A and B) ႏွစ္ဖက္ညီမွ်မႈ။ Try to achieve a proper balance between work and play. ❍ This newspaper maintains a good balance in its presentation of different opinions. (ခ) ခ်ိန္ညီျခင္း။ All the parts of the building are in perfect balance. ❍ The painting has a good balance of shapes and colours. ၂။ [U] (က) ဟန္ခ်က္။ Skiers need a good sense of balance. ❍ It is difficult to keep your balance on an icy pavement. ❍ She cycled too fast round the corner, lost her balance and fell off. (ခ) စိတ္ တည္ၿငိမ္မႈ။ His wife's sudden death upset the balance of his mind. ၃။ [C usu sing ] ( finance ) စာရင္းလက္က်န္။ လက္က်န္ေငြ။ check one's bank balance (ie find out how much money there is in one's account). ၄။ (က) [C usu sing ] ေႂကြးက်န္။ The balance (of $500) will be paid within one week. (ခ) the balance [sing] (ပစၥည္း စသည္) လက္က်န္။ The balance of your order will be supplied when we receive fresh stock. ❍ When will you take the balance of your annual leave? ❍ REST 2 ၅။ [C] ခ်ိန္ခြင္။ ❍ SCALE 3 v ၁။ (က) ၿငိမ္ေအာင္ထားသည္။ ဟန္ခ်က္ညီေအာင္ထားသည္။ a clown balancing a stick on the end of his nose. (ခ) ဟန္ခ်က္ညီေအာင္ ထိန္းသည္။ He balanced precariously on the narrow window-ledge. ❍ How long can you balance on one foot? ၂။ ( finance ) (က) ေငြစာရင္းကိုက္ညိႇ သည္။ balance an account/ the books ❍ balance the budget (ie to arrange for income and spending to be equal). (ခ) ရေငြသံုးေငြ ကိုက္ညိႇသည္။ ညီသည္။ Do the firm's accounts balance? (ဂ) ေထမိသည္။ This year's profits will balance our previous losses. ❍ ( fig ) His lack of experience was balanced by a willingness to learn. ၃။ ~ A against B ခ်ိန္ထိုးၾကည့္သည္။ ခ်ိန္တြက္ၾကည့္ သည္။ She balanced the attractions of a high salary against the prospect of working long hours. ၄။ အညီအမွ် အေလးထားသည္။ This school aims to balance the amount of time spent on arts and science subjects. ❏ balanced adj တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ မွ်တေသာ။ a balanced state of mind (ie one in which no single emotion is too strong) ❍ a balanced decision (ie one reached after comparing all the arguments) ❍ a balanced diet (ie one with the quantity and variety of food needed for good health). ❏ balance of payments n [sing] ျပည္ပေငြေပးေငြယူ ရွင္းတမ္း လက္က်န္။ a healthy balance-of-payments position. ❏ balance of power n [sing] ၁။ အင္အားခ်ိန္ခြင္။ ၂။ ( politics ) (အင္အားႀကီးအုပ္စုခ်င္း ခ်ိန္ခြင္ညႇာ ညီ ေနသည့္အခါ တြင္) ခ်ိန္ခြင္ညႇာမဲတင္း ေပးႏိုင္ ေသာ တတိယအင္အားစု။ Since the two main parties each won the same number of seats, the minority party holds the balance of power. ❍ The three branches of the government ensure a balance of power. ❏ balance of trade n [sing] ကုန္သြယ္ေရး မဲတင္းမႈ။ a balance-of-trade deficit (ie when a country's exports are worth less than its imports). ❏ balance sheet n ေငြလက္က်န္ရွင္းတမ္း။ ေငြစာရင္း ရွင္းတမ္း။ ❏ balancing act n ႏွစ္ဖက္ေက်နပ္ေအာင္ လိမၼာ ပါးနပ္စြာ ညိႇျခင္း။ ရွဥ့္လည္းေလွ်ာက္သာ၊ ပ်ားလည္းစြဲသာေအာင္လုပ္ ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ A delicate balancing act is needed in order to satisfy the two sides. ❏ (be/ hang) in the balance [ IDM ] မေရမရာ အေျခအေန။ ရင္တမမအေျခအေန။ The future of the project is (hanging) in the balance. ❏ (catch/ throw sb) off balance [ IDM ] ဟန္ခ်က္ ပ်က္သည္။ ယိုင္သြားသည္။ I was caught off balance by the sudden wind and nearly fell. ❍ ( fig ) The senator was clearly caught off balance by the unexpected question. ❏ on balance [ IDM ] ( infml ) အဘက္ဘက္ကၿခံဳ ၾကည့္လိုက္ ရင္။ Despite some failures, our firm has had quite a good year on balance.

Examples

1. An ear infection is affecting his balance.
2. [lose your balance] : He lost his balance and tipped backwards in the chair.
3. [keep your balance] : She grabbed at him to keep her balance.
4. [balance between] : It can be hard to find the right balance between advising your children and controlling them.
5. [balance of] : A healthy diet is about getting the correct balance of a variety of foods.
6. [strike a balance] : We’re trying to strike a balance between fun and learning.
7. [upset/alter the balance] : These creatures have upset the delicate ecological balance in the lake.
8. [balance to] : His conservatism is the perfect balance to her outgoing personality.
9. The current balance in your account is £1
10. 182.
11. You pay a deposit now and the balance in 12 months.
12. The balance of public opinion was against the proposal.
13. [tilt/shift the balance] : The balance has shifted in favour of the president.
14. [balance of] : You can use the balance of the time to finish the assignment.
15. She quickly recovered her balance after the outburst.