perilously

1. State visits are cumbersome, involve perilously high stakes and are loaded with symbolism.
   国事访问程序繁琐，牵涉过高的成败负担，还有太多象征主义的东西。
2. It has become ever clearer to me that danger is far from disaster, that defeat may be the forerunner of final victory, and that, in the last analysis, all achievement is perilously fragile unless based on enduring principles of moral conduct.
   我也更清楚地意识到，危险远非灾难，而失败也许就是最终胜利的先行者。因此，归根结底，一切成就如果不经受道会脆弱不堪，危机重重。
3. Purpose is already a perilously overused buzzword in modern business, but it is built into the way every voluntary organisation operates.
   在现代企业，目的已经成了一个使用过度的流行词，但它根植于每一家志愿者机构的运作方式。
4. This is a pretty pickle for Taiwan's government, which has been doing everything short of lighting mood candles to buoy the island's perilously low birth rate.
   对于台湾政府来说这的确是一个麻烦。政府一直在采取各种各样的措施提高岛上低到危险水平的生育率，就差给人点蜡烛制造情调了。
5. Tensions among the 19 countries that use the euro have mounted as Greece teeters perilously close to defaulting on its debt.
   随着希腊债务违约的风险加大，使用欧元的19个国家间的关系也愈加紧张。
6. Mr Hu says this position would have the advantage of being harder to attack ( he sees Beijing as perilously exposed to assault from the sea).
   胡教授说如果在华中建都，对防范外来袭击较为有利（他认为北京容易受到来自海上的侵略）。
7. This is the shocking moment a baby was allowed to crawl perilously close to the edge of a steep cliff in Norway so that her parents could snap a keepsake photograph.
   这真是一个惊险时刻！一对父母为了给孩子拍纪念照，让自家的小婴儿趴在挪威的一座陡峭的悬崖边缘，情况特别危险。
8. It leaves the country perilously dependent on its rickety banking industry to finance growth, heightening its vulnerability to sudden shocks.
   这种局面迫使中国过度依赖脆弱的银行体系为经济增长提供资金，使中国经济更易遭受突发事件的冲击。
9. In the past few quarters growth already averaged about 2 per cent. So the US could quite easily come perilously close to stall speed this year or worse, if the eurozone crisis worsens.
   但在过去的几个季度里，美国平均经济增速已经只有2%左右，因此美国经济今年非常容易失速，这是非常危险的如果欧元区危机恶化的话，甚至会更糟糕。
10. It was a non-tragic philosophy which though perilously near to inanity was by no means superficial.
    非悲剧性的哲学，虽几乎虚无，却并不浅薄。
11. Yet Kim has left it perilously late.
    然而，金正日却迟迟不动手&这有些危险。
12. I came perilously close to missing my plane.
    我差一点错过班机。
13. But as they drifted out of the stadium, South African fans could probably reflect on a game that their team could so easily have lost, having allowed Mexico to dominate the first half and come perilously close to conceding on numerous occasions.
    但当南非球迷成群结队地离开体育场时，他们或许会反思这场比赛：南非队本来很可能输掉比赛，因为他们让墨西哥队在上半场主宰了比赛，多次险些攻破南非队的球门。
14. A day after official figures signalled that the country was moving perilously close to recession, the Australian government yesterday instructed its workforce to take a break.
    在官方数据显示该国正危险地接近衰退之后一天，澳大利亚政府昨日指示该国就业者休假。
15. The experts contributing to this book have conducted their own research into this seminal event that the Bush administration has used to subvert civil liberties, conduct preemptive wars, and bring the world perilously closer to chaos.
    专家们作出贡献，这本书已进行自己的研究，这具有开创性的事件说，布什政府已用来破坏公民自由，进行先发制人的战争，使世界更危险地接近混乱。
16. The ECB is already treading perilously close to this line.
    欧洲央行已经接近这条危险的警戒线。
17. He stumbled with his old awkwardness after her, and his shoulders swung and lurched perilously.
    他又是那样笨拙蹒跚地走在她的后面。甩着肩膀危险地晃动着身子。
18. They are perilously low on food and medical supplies.
    他们严重缺乏食物和药品。
19. How markets and regulators will treat banks with perilously low capital ratios at the end of the recession remains an open question, Simon Samuels, an analyst at Citigroup, wrote earlier this month.
    花旗集团分析师西蒙•塞缪尔（SimonSamuels）在本月初撰文写道：市场和监管者在衰退结束时会如何对待资本充足率低得有些危险的银行，尚有待回答。
20. China-watchers say that Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, came perilously close to painting himself into a corner by appearing to egg Congress on rather than counselling caution.
    中国观察家表示，美国财长蒂姆盖特纳（TimGeithner）似乎是在怂恿国会，而不是劝告他们保持谨慎，这种做法接近于将自己逼入了危险境地。
21. An incident in which it came perilously close to destruction.
    一次险些使它遭到毁灭的事件。
22. In the meantime the financial system remains perilously fragile.
    与此同时，金融体系仍脆弱得不堪一击。
23. They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.
    他们离悬崖边很近，十分危险。
24. A wolf spider treads perilously on the rim of a South American pitcher plant, perhaps looking to prey on insects drawn to the plant's strong nectar scent.
    一只狼蛛在南非猪笼草边缘如履薄冰，他正在寻找被浓郁花香吸引过来的昆虫。
25. We are getting perilously close to the moment when Italy finds that it too cannot access the bond markets.
    很快，意大利也将无法从国债市场融资了。
26. We came perilously close to disaster.
    我们险些出了大乱子。
27. For a president facing a perilously close re-election, that is an unwelcome prospect.
    对于一个面临着选情接近危险局面的竞选连任的总统来说，这样的前景不容乐观。
28. But the legitimacy and authority they need to realise those priorities are perilously fragile.
    但是，他们赖以实现那些政治理想的权力和合法性确是极为脆弱的。

adv

1. in a dangerous manner
   1. he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge

   Synonym:    hazardouslydangerously