这会使国内消费减少，使天平向生产出口商品的公司倾斜，推动工人和资金向它们的方向流动。
That cools spending at home and tilts the scales towards firms that sell abroad, nudging workers and capital in their direction.
如果天平倾斜，原本诚实的人也许会决定做出不利于对方之人（或者公司、国家）的事情以达到“双方扯平”的目的。
If the scales are tipped, an otherwise honest person might decide to do something against the other person (or company or country) to "even the score."
总部设在旧金山的Twitter公司估算出日本用户一天平均发布近8百万条消息，大约占到全球总数的12%，也仅次于美国。
The San Francisco-based company estimates the Japanese send nearly 8 million tweets a day, about 12 percent of the global total and second only to the United States.
当审计公司明白因为对日兴证券(NikkoCordial)这个日本第三大经济公司的一时疏忽，并且日兴到2005年为止已在不断增加其利润额时，这架天平在去年年底业已失衡。
The balance tipped late last year when it became clear the auditing firm had failed to notice that Nikko Cordial, Japan's third-biggest broker, had inflated its profits in the year to March 2005.
下午3点28分，同步启动：3个携带笔记本电脑的陌生人围坐在露天平台上的一张桌子旁，开始讨论一家刚创立的社交网络公司。
28 p.m., syncing up: Three laptop-toting strangers sitting around a table on the sundeck strike up a conversation about a new social-networking startup.
下午3点28分，同步启动：3个携带笔记本电脑的陌生人围坐在露天平台上的一张桌子旁，开始讨论一家刚创立的社交网络公司。
28 p.m., syncing up: Three laptop-toting strangers sitting around a table on the sundeck strike up a conversation about a new social-networking startup.
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