Against this background she comes over as a dangerous, unstable, even transgressive figure—a woman on the edge in many senses.

在当时的生活背景下，多萝西出脱成了一个危险不定、甚至不为世人所包容的形象——成为多种意义上的边缘女性。

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A young woman at the edge of a field in Helmand province on Oct. 8, 2010.

一个年轻的女人站在田地旁。 摄于 2010年10月8日，赫尔曼德省。

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Theirs isthe story of the bad boy made very, very good, who breezes stylishlythrough high society with an impossibly glamorous woman on his arm, yetnever loses his street-smart edge.

他们的故事是关于一个坏小子如何变得越来越成功，虽然他们往返于上流社会，怀抱迷人的姑娘，可依然没有丢掉街头的秉性。

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The woman stepped off the treadmill, sat on the edge of an examination table, and began to cry.

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The woman said that, as she sat on the edge of the bed, he pushed her back by her shoulders before raping her in an attack which lasted seconds.

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The woman, who died earlier this week, was from Cameron County on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico.

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