in the balance

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，他们季后赛首轮对阵菲尼克斯的第一场，命运悬而未决，只是偶然，现在他们需要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.(银行和家庭的债务要花几年的时间才能偿完，资产负债表的大坑也要先填平了，经济才能重归反弹点。)

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.(仅仅6个月前，雷亚尔还在暴跌，造成纸浆生厂商AracruzCeluloseSA等蓝筹股企业的资产负债表出现了大窟窿。)

But there is now "a breakdown in the balance between the generations", thanks to the colossal size of one of them.(但现在，“在代际之间的”均势被打破，这归功于他们中之一的巨大规模。)

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.(然后苹果的另一个巨大的优势还需要很长的时间才能显现，目前来说，结果还是个未知数。)

The fate of Pierre Gadonneix, EDF’s departing boss, had hung in the balance for many months.(EDF即将离任的老板皮埃尔.加多内的宝座在过去几个月里已是岌岌可危。)

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.(花旗集团和汇丰都已撇开富裕国家。但是他们的意向——客户还是企业、中国还是整个新兴市场——依旧没有确定。)

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for a Universal System of Measurement. By Robert Crease.(《变化中的世界：通用计量制度的历史追寻》，作者罗伯特•克利斯•W•W•诺顿，共288页，定价：26.95美元；20英镑。)

Overall, the outcome of what has become a civil war is still in the balance.(总之，这场内战的结果仍然势均力敌。)

This marks an extraordinary change in the balance of power.(这标志这军事力量平衡的一个显著改变。)