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In reality, your brain operates on the edge of chaos.
在现实中，你的大脑在混乱的边缘运算着。
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.
那个怪异的思考者，我把它放到了橱柜边缘，这样他好象在朝下盯着那条浴巾，等待着它掉下来。
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But unlike America, Spain is on the edge of a debt crisis.
但是，跟美国不同的是，西班牙正处于债务危机的边缘。

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.
在书的最开头还有一个例子：,“在树林中，火车疾驰，若隐若现,时不时地露出远方树林,边缘的火红的夕阳,一旁是弯弯曲曲。
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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.
有一件关于莫斯科的史实,直到二十世纪,在莫斯科的郊外,还有许多农民住在这样的小木屋里
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Buying farmland on the edge of big cities would have been an even better play.
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