| 释义 |
Examples:keep to the edge (of path, river etc)—cutting-edge (in technology, science, fashion, the arts etc)—trailing edge (of airplane wing)—cutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool—arris (curve formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge)—trimmed edge (of a page in a book)—arris (sharp ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge)—land on water edge or under wall—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—lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge [idiom.]—crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) [idiom.]— |