失衡
shī héng
Pinyin

Definition

失衡
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shī héng
  1. to unbalance
  2. an imbalance

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

失去
shī qù
  1. 1 to lose
失败
shī bài
  1. 1 to be defeated
  2. 2 to lose
  3. 3 to fail (e.g. experiments)
  4. 4 failure
  5. 5 defeat
  6. 6 classifier: 次 cì
失望
shī wàng
  1. 1 disappointed
  2. 2 to lose hope
  3. 3 to despair
失眠
shī mián
  1. 1 to suffer from insomnia
消失
xiāo shī
  1. 1 to disappear
  2. 2 to fade away

Idioms (20)

一失足成千古恨
yī shī zú chéng qiān gǔ hèn
  1. 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
人有失手，马有失蹄
rén yǒu shī shǒu , mǎ yǒu shī tí
  1. 1 lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everyone makes mistakes
  3. 3 even the best fall down sometimes
北叟失马
běi sǒu shī mǎ
  1. 1 lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a blessing in disguise
  3. 3 it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
千虑一失
qiān lǜ yī shī
  1. 1 reflect a thousand times and you can still make a mistake (idiom); to err is human
因小失大
yīn xiǎo shī dà
  1. 1 to save a little only to lose a lot (idiom)

Sample Sentences

不是啦。我说的上火是中医上的一种说法。套用中医的话说，上火就是人体阴阳失衡后出现的内热症。感觉浑身像烧了一把火一样。
bù shì la 。wǒ shuō de shànghuǒ shì zhōngyī shàng de yīzhǒng shuōfa 。tàoyòng zhōngyī de huà shuō ，shànghuǒ jiùshì réntǐ yīnyáng shīhéng hòu chūxiàn de nèirèzhèng 。gǎnjué húnshēn xiàng shāo le yī bǎ huǒ yīyàng 。
It's not that. The internal heat I'm talking about is a concept from traditional Chinese medicine. To borrow a phrase from Chinese medicine, excessive internal heat is a heat disease that shows up when the Yin and Yang in a person's body get out of balance. You feel like you're burning from head to foot.
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没错，这些企业不但生产方式落后，投入产出比例失衡，而且是以破坏生态环境为代价来换取经济效益。
méicuò ，zhèxiē qǐyè bùdàn shēngchǎn fāngshì luòhòu ，tóurù chǎnchū bǐlì shīhéng ，érqiě shì yǐ pòhuài shēngtàihuánjìng wèi dàijià lái huànqǔ jīngjì xiàoyì 。
That's right, these firms not only have backward production methods, an imbalance between input and output, they also pursue financial efficiency at the price of destroying the environment.
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