This tie works exactly like a bowstring, balancing the arch's thrust forces with its resistance to tension.

这种系带的工作原理与弓弦完全相同，可以平衡弓的推力及其抗拉力。

Additional cables, called backstays, were connected to anchorages behind each tower to balance the horizontal forces, similar to the way suspension bridges work with their towers and abutment anchorages.

额外的缆索（称为后拉索）连接到每个塔后面的锚地，以平衡水平力，类似于悬索桥与其塔和桥台锚地的工作方式。

I write, picking out my words, weighing and balancing the force of every syllable, calculating the minutest effects that language can produce, erasing and rewriting, and spending a whole evening over a page of manuscript.

我写作，挑出我的词，权衡和平衡每个音节的力量，计算语言可以产生的最微小的效果，擦除和重写，并在一页手稿上花费整个晚上。