Sterling could be staring over the edge of the abyss.

英镑现在正处在深渊的边缘。

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For all that, however, the latest flurry of economic reports suggests that the economy has backed up several paces from the edge of the abyss.

然而，尽管如此，最近疾风骤雨般的经济报告则暗示经济已从悬崖边退回好多步。

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The country is stepping back from the edge of an abyss.

该国临渊而退。

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"How do you make sure you are designing a system where you are going to constrain risk taking, you can prevent crises from spreading,and -- if a major institution managed itself to the edge of the abyss -- that we are able to put them out of their misery."

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This was the first rate cut since December 2008, when the global economy was staring over the edge of the abyss.

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But the beleaguered Jews were disunited too: secular, socialist, non-Zionist Jews like him, with ardent Zionists and communists, all bickering over tactics at the edge of the abyss.

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As the economy teetered at the edge of the abyss Helicopter Ben flew into action, flooding the planet with liquidity determined to smother any hint of demon deflation under mountains of fresh greenbacks.

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