The Balance of Payments (BOP)为“the balance of international payments”，即“国际收支平衡表”，反映一定时期一国（或地区）同外国的全部经济往来的收支流量表。是对一个国家与其他国家进行经济技术交流过程中所发生的贸易、非贸易、资本往来以及储备资产的实际动态所作的系统记录，是国际收支核算的重要工具。

The Balance of Payments是国际收支核算的重要工具。通过国际收支平衡表，可综合反映一国的国际收支平衡状况、收支结构及储备资产的增减变动情况，为制定对外经济政策，分析影响国际收支平衡的基本经济因素，采取相应的调控措施提供依据，并为其他核算表中有关国外部分提供基础性资料。

The Balance of Payments交易包括货物、服务和资本的进口和出口，以及转移支付，如外国援助和汇款。一国的国际收支平衡和国际投资净额共同构成其国际账户。

The Balance of Payments将交易分为两个账户：经常账户（the current account）和资本账户（the capital account）。有时资本账户也被称为金融账户，经常账户包括商品交易、服务交易、投资收入和经常转移。

参考双语例句：

While there is reason to expect a deterioration in the balance-of-payments current account compared to 2009, mostly as a result of an upturn in imports, the availability of external financing, together with increased FDI inflows, will probably suffice not only to cover this larger deficit, but even to continue restoring international reserve levels.

虽然有理由认为，与2009年相比，国际收支经常账户很可能会因进口的增加而出现恶化，但由于对外筹资以及外国直接投资的增加，因此不仅能弥补赤字的增加，甚至可以继续恢复国际储备的数额。

If external constraints prevent the implementation of such accommodating macroeconomic policies, the international and regional financial institutions should provide the necessary support and help countries in crisis to resolve their balance of payments problems without introducing contractionary austerity measures.

如果外部约束因素阻碍执行这种包容性的宏观经济政策，那么，国际和区域金融机构就应该提供必要的支持，帮助处于危机之中的国家在不采取收缩性财政紧缩措施的情况下，解决它们国际收支问题。

The main impacts of the current multilateral trade regime on the right to food include: (a) increased dependency on international trade which may lead to loss of export revenues when the prices of export commodities go down, threats to local producers when low-priced imports arrive on the domestic markets, against which these producers are unable to compete, and balance of payments problems for the net food-importing countries when the prices of food commodities go up; (b) potential abuses of market power in increasingly concentrated global food supply chains and further dualization of the domestic farming sector; and (c) potential impacts on the environment and on human health and nutrition, impacts that are usually ignored in international trade discussions, despite their close relationship to the right to adequate food.

目前涉及食物权的多边贸易制度的主要特点包括：(a)日益依赖国际贸易，这种情况在出口商品下跌时会造成出口收入的损失；廉价进口品一旦进入国内市场，对当地生产者造成威胁，这些生产者无法与其竞争，以及粮食价格一旦上涨，粮食净进口国的国际收支就会出问题；(b)在日益集中的全球粮食供应链中可能会出现滥用市场支配力的情况，以及国内农业部门可能进一步双元化；(c)对环境及人的健康和营养的可能影响，虽然这种影响与适足食物权密切相关，但在国际贸易讨论中一般无视这种影响。