precipice

美 [ˈpresəpɪs]
英 ['presəpɪs]
  • n.悬崖；峭壁
  • 网络绝壁；断崖；石壁
复数：precipices  

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网络释义

precipice
n.
— see also
precipitous
1.
悬崖；峭壁a very steep side of a high cliff , mountain or rock
The country was now on the edge of a precipice(= very close to disaster) .
这个国家现在情势岌岌可危。

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1.
Think about that if you know some one constantly encourage you when you are standing on the precipice , you are valuable to her .
试想一下，如果你知道某个人一直鼓励你坚持自己的原则时，说明你对她来说很重要。
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2.
He quickly grasped a small tree By the side of the precipice and Began to move downward Bit By Bit.
他迅速抓住悬崖边上的一颗小树，一点一点向下移动。
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3.
The system, as Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, noted a few weeks later, was "on the precipice" .
正如英国央行行长默文•金（MervynKing）几周后指出的那样，金融体系已“面临绝境”。
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4.
Now that we are no longer staring over the precipice, wasn't this all just a little excitable?
既然我们不再濒临绝境，这不是有些令人兴奋吗？
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5.
it lives obscurely under my fingers, and I feel a dizziness that draws me as the bottom of a precipice might draw me.
它模糊地生活在我手指间，我感受到一种晕眩吸引我，如同悬崖的底端吸引我。
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6.
Who ' s right ? The rich world does not seem to be on the precipice of deflation .
两方孰对孰错？富有国家似乎还没有通缩的问题迫在眉睫。
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7.
Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice.
在不可能之前命运也有它的悬崖峭壁。越过这些峭壁，生命就只是一个无底深渊了。
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8.
I sat her in the sledge, pale and trembling, put my arm round her and with her cast myself down the precipice.
我让她坐到雪橇里，她脸色苍白，浑身战栗，我环抱着她一起冲下山崖。
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9.
Three years ago for our first interview with her, she was a bony little thing perched on the precipice of fame.
三年前第一次采访她时，她还只是个骨瘦的小东西在名利的边缘蓄势待发。
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10.
Just over a year ago, the day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the world economy fell off a precipice.
仅仅一年多前，雷曼兄弟申请破产，世界经济从悬崖上跌落。
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