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.(銀行和家庭的債務要花幾年的時間才能償完，資產負債表的大坑也要先填平了，經濟才能重歸反彈點。)

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等藍籌股企業的資產負債表出現了大窟窿。)

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勢還需要很長的時間才能顯現，目前來說，結果還是個未知數。)

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、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，這場內戰的結果仍然勢均力敵。)

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