checks and balances
中文释义
制衡机制，指为了防止权力滥用而设立的制度。
Systems designed to prevent any one part of government from becoming too powerful.
常用搭配
- a system of checks and balances制衡体系
- weaken checks and balances削弱制衡
- maintain checks and balances维持制衡
例句
- In a healthy company, checks and balances stop any one boss from going rogue.健康的公司里，制衡机制能防止某个老板胡来。
- The audit committee provides checks and balances over executive spending.审计委员会对高管开支起到制衡作用。