juggle

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ldoce_177_bjug·gle /ˈdʒʌɡəl/ verb

[intransitiveI, transitiveT]DGO to keep three or more objects moving through the air by throwing and catching them very quickly 玩雜耍，邊抛邊接〔數件物品〕

juggle with

One guy was juggling with five balls.

有個家夥在玩雜耍抛接五個球。

→5 See picture of JUGGLE 玩雜耍 →4 See picture of 見圖 juggle

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]D to try to fit two or more jobs, activities etc into your life, especially with difficulty 〔尤指吃力地〕同時應付〔幾份工作、多項活動等〕

juggle something (with something)

It’s hard trying to juggle a job with kids and the housework.

既要上班，又要帶孩子、做家務，是很難應付過來的。

3 [transitiveT]BF to change things or arrange them in the way you want, or in a way that makes it possible for you to do something 改動；重新安排

juggle something around

If I juggle these appointments around, I can fit you in.

我把這些預約調整一下，就能把你安排進去。

→ balancing/juggling act at act1(12)

Examples from the Corpus

juggle• It helps users to juggle a variety of programs at once, each in its own window on the screen.• suburban working mothers who juggle careers, families, and after-school sports• Our own experiments with people's ability to juggle credit-cost options give no reason to expect different results here.• With school starting, Anna will have to juggle her love of swimming with her homework.• They have to juggle jobs and child care arrangements.• I don't think any man can ever understand the difficulties of juggling motherhood and politics.• Popular actors juggled several productions at once.• To learn to juggle, take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc.• By juggling the figures, Taylor can make the data say anything he wants.• Kennedy, like any president, tried to juggle the pressures brought on him by different aides.• The film is about a maintenance man who juggles three jobs to provide for his family.• Some jiggling, oops, juggling was done.• He picked up a book on juggling which his daughter had brought home, and 4 months later he's teaching others.

From Longman Business Dictionary

jugglejug·gle /ˈdʒʌgəl/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

1to buy and sell different investments frequently in order to make as much profit as possible

Traders juggle stock and options to maximize profits from temporary price differences.

Some investors juggle between stocks, bonds and cash in search of high returns with moderate risks.

2if you juggle numbers or figures, you present them in a different way so that they show different things or have a different effect

After juggling the figures, the Commerce Department now says GNP rose by only 1.4% in the third quarter.

3if you juggle two jobs or activities, you try to fit them both into your life

Many women successfully juggle career and family.

Origin juggle

(1300-1400) juggler ((11-21 centuries)), from Old French jogleour, from Latin joculari “to make fun”, from jocus; → JOKE1

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Corpus

BNC: 11109 COCA: 9584

juggle

To aim and to throw: throw, direct, aim...