on the edge of

常見例句

In reality, your brain operates on the edge of chaos.
在現(xiàn)實(shí)中，你的大腦在混亂的邊緣運(yùn)算著。
The portentous Thinker I placed on the edge of the cupboard so that he looked down at the bath towel and waited for it to slip.
那個(gè)怪異的思考者，我把它放到了櫥柜邊緣，這樣他好象在朝下盯著那條浴巾，等待著它掉下來。
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But unlike America, Spain is on the edge of a debt crisis.
但是，跟美國不同的是，西班牙正處于債務(wù)危機(jī)的邊緣。

There is literally concrete evidence of their work." Tony Hawk says skateboarding was once a sport on the edge of society.
Another example is at the very opening of the book: The train was racing through treetops that fell away at intervals and showed the sun standing very red on the edge of the farthest woods.
在書的最開頭還有一個(gè)例子：,“在樹林中，火車疾馳，若隱若現(xiàn),時(shí)不時(shí)地露出遠(yuǎn)方樹林,邊緣的火紅的夕陽,一旁是彎彎曲曲。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
One of the things that's very true about Moscow, right into the twentieth century, is that you had all sorts of peasants living on the edge of Moscow living in these wooden houses.
有一件關(guān)于莫斯科的史實(shí),直到二十世紀(jì),在莫斯科的郊外,還有許多農(nóng)民住在這樣的小木屋里
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選

Buying farmland on the edge of big cities would have been an even better play.
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In the Willamette Valley we are on the edge of the climate limits for viticulture.
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