I know men who hold their situations by slenderest thread, whose work is burdensome, whose salaries are small, who have troubles to meet them when they come home.

我认识一些看似陷入绝境的人，他们的工作繁重不堪，他们的薪水少得可怜，回到家就有一堆麻烦在等待他们。

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Paul Cooke and Blaymire combined twice to give the visitors the slenderest of hope with 35 minutes to go.

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He said the special forces who carried out the operation "did an extraordinary job with just the slenderest of bits of information".

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Yet the polls, until late last year, had been giving Mr Aznar and his party only the slenderest of leads over their Socialist rivals.

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