Their Western Conference first-round game against Phoenix was hanging in the balance Saturday afternoon, when the Spurs accidentally turned to Tim Duncan for three.(周六下午，他們季后賽首輪對陣菲尼克斯的第一場，命運懸而未決，只是偶然，現(xiàn)在他們需要TimDuncan的三分球。)

The stock of debt that banks and households still carry will take years to pay off. The hole in the balance-sheet must be sealed before the economy can regain its bounce.(銀行和家庭的債務(wù)要花幾年的時間才能償完，資產(chǎn)負(fù)債表的大坑也要先填平了，經(jīng)濟才能重歸反彈點。)

Just six months ago, the real was plunging, blowing huge holes in the balance sheets of blue-chip companies such as pulp maker Aracruz Celulose SA.(僅僅6個月前，雷亞爾還在暴跌，造成紙漿生廠商AracruzCeluloseSA等藍(lán)籌股企業(yè)的資產(chǎn)負(fù)債表出現(xiàn)了大窟窿。)

But there is now "a breakdown in the balance between the generations", thanks to the colossal size of one of them.(但現(xiàn)在，“在代際之間的”均勢被打破，這歸功于他們中之一的巨大規(guī)模。)

The other major advantage to FaceTime however, will take much longer to show its effects and, at the moment, its results hang in the balance.(然后蘋果的另一個巨大的優(yōu)勢還需要很長的時間才能顯現(xiàn)，目前來說，結(jié)果還是個未知數(shù)。)

The fate of Pierre Gadonneix, EDF’s departing boss, had hung in the balance for many months.(EDF即將離任的老板皮埃爾.加多內(nèi)的寶座在過去幾個月里已是岌岌可危。)

Both Citigroup and HSBC have tilted away from the rich world but their direction-consumer or corporate, China or the entire emerging world-remains in the balance.(花旗集團和匯豐都已撇開富裕國家。但是他們的意向——客戶還是企業(yè)、中國還是整個新興市場——依舊沒有確定。)

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for a Universal System of Measurement. By Robert Crease.(《變化中的世界：通用計量制度的歷史追尋》，作者羅伯特?克利斯?W?W?諾頓，共288頁，定價：26.95美元；20英鎊。)

Overall, the outcome of what has become a civil war is still in the balance.(總之，這場內(nèi)戰(zhàn)的結(jié)果仍然勢均力敵。)

This marks an extraordinary change in the balance of power.(這標(biāo)志這軍事力量平衡的一個顯著改變。)