trade-off

英 [ˈtreɪd ɒf]

美 [ˈtreɪd ɔːf]

n.  (在需要而又相互对立的两者间的)权衡，协调

复数：trade-offs　

经济

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牛津词典

noun

• （在需要而又相互对立的两者间的）权衡，协调
  the act of balancing two things that you need or want but which are opposed to each other
  1. There is a trade-off between the benefits of the drug and the risk of side effects.
     在这种药的疗效和副作用之间有个权衡利弊的问题。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 权衡;协调;交易;交换
  Atrade-offis a situation where you make a compromise between two things, or where you exchange all or part of one thing for another.
  1. The newspaper's headline indicates that there was a trade-off at the summit.
     报纸的大字标题表明峰会上大家作出了妥协。
  2. ...the trade-off between inflation and unemployment.
     在通货膨胀与失业之间求得平衡
  3. …the tradeoff of territory or land for peace.
     以领土或土地换取和平的交易

英英释义

noun

• an exchange that occurs as a compromise
  1. I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine
  Synonym:tradeoff

双语例句

• To most thoughtful people, unemployment benefit embodies a painful trade-off.
  对多数有识之士而言，失业救济体现了一种痛苦的权衡。
• Using reflection like this represents a trade-off: complexity versus conciseness.
  像上面这样使用反射代表了一种权衡：复杂性和简洁性。
• For the inventor, that may be a reasonable trade-off.
  对于发明人而言，这可能是一个合理的交换条件。
• But this configuration option has a trade-off.
  但这种配置选项也是一种折衷。
• Germany provides a good example of such a trade-off.
  德国提供了一个很好的例子。
• The trade-off between liberty and prosperity seems to have widespread, if not universal, support there.
  自由与繁荣之间的交换在这里似乎受到了广泛（如果不是全体）的支持。
• The road to building that trust lies in a more transparent and considered approach to the privacy trade-off.
  要想建立起用户信任，需要以更加透明和审慎的方式在隐私问题上进行取舍。
• We finally came to a trade-off ( compromise) between efficiency in use and elegance of design.
  我们最后在使用的效率和外观漂亮之间达成了一个折衷结果。
• There is a trade-off between doing the job accurately and doing it quickly.
  在准确和迅速地完成工作之间有个平衡的问题。
• A trade-off is required to balance the tuning and coding.
  为了平衡调优和编码需要一些权衡。