turn the scale

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To decide or determine a balanced situation. idiomatic
    — Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.

词形变化

turns the scale present,singular,third-person turning the scale participle,present turned the scale participle,past turned the scale past
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