| 释义 |
Examples:keep to the edge (of path, river etc)—cutting-edge (in technology, science, fashion, the arts etc)—raw edge (textiles, papermaking etc)—cutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool—arris (curve formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge)—border or edge (of clothing)—trimmed edge (of a page in a book)—arris (sharp ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge)—lit. rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time—a low stone wall built along the water's edge protect an embankment—crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) [idiom.]—lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge [idiom.]— |