| 1. | I stood on the edge of a precipice .
我的处境是汲汲可危的。 |
| 2. | She threw herself from the precipice .
她从岩上跳了下去。 |
| 3. | They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice .
他们离悬崖边很近，十分危险。 |
| 4. | In the morning sunshine a precipice shone forth beyond the gulf .
晨曦中，一座悬崖在深渊的对岸闪耀着光辉。 |
| 5. | Watching him climb up the precipice , everybody was breathless with anxiety .
看着他往悬崖上爬，大家都捏一把汗。 |
| 6. | Both the upper and lower sandstone units of the precipice are oil-bearing .
普雷西皮斯的上部和下部砂岩单元都含油。 |
| 7. | The criminals should stop on the precipice , retract from the wrong path and not go any further .
犯罪分子应当迷途知返，悬崖勒马，不要在错误的道路上继续走下去。 |
| 8. | Once the machine started skidding they accelerated its descent over the precipice rather than braked it in time .
一旦机器开始下滑，他们不能及时把它刹住，反而会使它滑得更快，落入深渊。 |
| 9. | Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice .
他觉得时间在沉重地向前爬行，而他自己却在被一阵妖风刮向某一黑色断崖的锯齿形边缘上。 |
| 10. | That there are times when my life is on the precipice of death
以前曾有过的我命悬一线 |
