tip the scales

My desire to tip the scales in favor of the healthy, happy children drew me to medical research.

我的愿望的健康、快乐的孩子把我拉到医学研究。

What, then, accounts for brown dwarfs , which tip the scales at merely a few tens of Jupiters (a few hundredths of a solar mass)?

那麽，如何才能解释棕矮星仅有数十颗木星的质量（太阳质量的百分之几）呢？

The fighters are paired at a weigh-in, complicated by the fact that contenders never tip the scales at more than a gram.

蟋蟀将按称重配对，由于斗蟋的重量不超过1克，因此操作起来很复杂。

But this attack, though admittedly more spectacular than most, is unlikely to tip the scales of despair.

尽管这次袭击不可否认地相比大多数时候更为猛烈，但却并不能倾斜沮丧的天平。

In 2005 Chelsea were the victors but Fabregas believes that Messi could tip the scales in the Catalans' favour.

2005年的比赛切尔西是胜利者，但法布雷加斯认为在加泰罗尼亚人的支持下梅西能扭转这一局面。

However, I couldn't resist bragging that when I was 17, 1 weighed 225 pounds and today I tip the scales at 224.

可是，我禁不住夸耀说我17岁时，体重225磅，而目前体重是224磅。