Point Reyes, California, near the top of the cliff, under fog.

加利福尼亚的雷斯岬，靠近悬崖之顶，云雾笼罩。

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Although we live in the cliff, there must be some earth under us that is unselfish.

即使生长在悬崖绝壁，树的脚下，也一定有一抔无私奉献的泥土。

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Another is that the performance of Greece under the EU-IMF programme has been so poor that every quarterly assessment to approve the next tranche of loans becomes a cliff-hanger.

另一个原因是希腊如此糟糕的表现，它已经接受欧盟-国际货币基金组织的援助方案，然而每季度的评估结果都表明下一笔援助款项将成为它的最后一根救命稻草。

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The deficit in 2013 under the cliff deal: A steep 6.1 percent of GDP.

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Melanie Hicken, More savers can convert to Roth 401(k)s under fiscal cliff deal, CNN Money, Jan. 4, 2013.

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Under the cliff agreement, in 2017 spending falls to 21.5 percent of GDP, while revenues rise to about 19 percent for a deficit of about 2.5 percent of GDP, which is not too bad.

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