Perhaps I was on my hands and knees, or looking down over the back of a chair talking into what I imagined an abyss.

也许那时，我正趴在地上，或是低头看着椅背，说着自己想象中的无底深渊吧。

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The path was very steep and narrow suspending over formidable abyss.

路窄坡陡，两边是万丈深渊。

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I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness — that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.

我寻找爱，其次是因为它会减轻孤独，置身于那种可怕的孤独中，颤抖的灵魂在世界的边缘，看到冰冷的、死寂的、无底深渊。

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Finally global economies, which had reached the point of looking over the abyss into a potential second global Great Depression, began to pull back from the brink.

FORBES: Government May Wait For The Next Panic Before It Acts

Even devout believers walk a tightrope over the abyss.

NEWYORKER: The Rebellion Within

The exuberantly composed and furiously performed scenes play out, in bars and streets and beds and bathrooms, at the perilously measured pace of a tightrope walker dancing over the abyss, and the three actors lurch and shamble with the vestigial grace of the athletes these commuters once longed to be.

NEWYORKER: Husbands