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。
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。
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。
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”。
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?
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
This basalt precipice is exposed in the form of a huge longitudinal section which releases it on its whole height.
这玄武岩断崖暴露的形式一个巨大的纵切面释放它的整体高度。
So what you see, that precipice, that high precipice with the valley, is the 2008 financial crisis.
因此各位所看到的,这悬崖,深沟险壑,是2008年的金融危机。
Granted, Japan sailed serenely through the Wall Street crash of 1987, only to drop off its own much steeper precipice two years later.
我们都知道,日本从容躲过了1987年的华尔街崩盘,却在两年后从更陡峭的悬崖上跌了下去。
We are standing on the edge of a precipice, and obviously there must be some kind of transformation, for we cannot go on as we are.
我们在悬崖的边缘,显然必须要改变,因为我们无法这样继续下去了。
Once investors start to look over this precipice, the resulting stampede out of euro-denominated assets could become self-fulfilling.
一旦投资者开始审视欧元解体的可能性,接下来,以欧元计价的资产遭到抛售,可能成为一种自我实现的结局。
Love seems to grow in upper flower of precipice , want to extract indispensable need to have guts right away .
爱情就像是生长在悬崖上的一朵花,想要摘就必需要有勇气。
AS RECENTLY as a month ago, there were still hopes that America and Europe might just pull back from the precipice of a recession.
就在一个月前,美国和欧洲仍有从经济衰退悬崖边上抽身的希望。
There was not a sound but the birds flocking and turning across the precipice, wheeling and turning back.
除了鸟儿成群在绝壁间来回盘旋的声音之外,四周一片寂寥。
But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice they had skirted, and full of a new awe at the mystery of young-girlhood.
然而他仍然被他们刚刚避开的险情弄得头晕目眩,并且对年轻姑娘的神秘性充满一种新的敬畏。
Krishnamurti: Then you leave it, as you leave the precipice: step away from it.
那么你就离开它,就像离开悬崖一样远离它。
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