teetering

murky water caused by all sorts of industrial processes is mucking up the turtles' anuses and has left them teetering on the brink of being wiped out of their preferred habitats.

不过不幸的是，各种工业过程中造成的污浊的水正在影响破坏海龟的肛门，并且已经让它们被迫徘徊在搬离生存已久的栖息地的边缘了。

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The Empire's teetering in the balance.

帝国在摇摇欲坠.

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Yet amid the crowing, Tory leaders also urged the teetering, ill-matched mountaineers of the euro zone to seek salvation by in effect roping themselves more tightly together.

然而，在嘈杂之中，保守党领导人也督促欧洲地区那些步履蹒跚却不合作的攀山者们通过更加紧密地相互联合在一起来获得救助。

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Three of the hotels are in receivership, and others are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

有3家宾馆已破产在管，其他几家正在破产的边缘徘徊。

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Look! There's a drunken man teetering at the head of the stairs.

看, 有个醉汉在楼梯顶那里摇摇欲坠呢.

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Three of the hotels are in receivership, and others are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy...

有 3 家宾馆已破产在管，其他几家正在破产的边缘徘徊。

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Their economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.

他们的经济徘徊在崩溃的边缘。

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Asia's forward price/ earnings ratio, at 23 times, is teetering some 30 per cent above its three-year average; the US and Europe, at 16 and 13 times, are 7 and 11 per cent above trend, respectively.

亚洲的预期市盈率为23倍，比3年均值高出约30%；美国和欧洲的预期市盈率分别为16倍和13倍，较趋势水平高出7%和11%。

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I actually skated, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice.

我真的滑冰了——尽管有些踉跄，但没有跌跟头。

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The movie opens with her character-cheerfully frowzy, with swinging earrings, teetering heels and the telltale cheap cat-print adornment-arguing with a shady type, who turns out to be a new fling.

影片以她饰演的人物开始，那是个欢快而又邋遢的女郎，耳环摇摇荡荡，穿着高跟鞋，印着猫咪的廉价装饰品颇为说明问题，她正和一个颇为可疑的人吵架，后来他成了她新的一段风流韵事。

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Germany and Britain are teetering.

德国和英国正在摇摇欲坠.

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And I think sometimes on the teeter-totter of each of those three dimensions were teetering where I wish we were tottering a little more as our products are more complicated.

我想有时这就像坐跷跷板，三个维度都在摇晃不定，无法抉择，比我们的产品生产还复杂一些。

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Wave after wave of wave soaked my ankle, multicolored rosy clouds, teetering on a single lonely heart.

一波又一波的浪浸湿了我的脚踝，五彩斑斓的彩霞，徘徊着一颗孤寂的心。

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I actually skated, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice...

我真的滑冰了——尽管有些踉跄，但没有跌跟头。

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British theatre is in a perilous state , teetering on the brink of ruin.

英国戏剧处境岌岌可危, 正濒于毁灭.

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A week later the country was teetering on the brink of civil war.

而一周之后,肯尼亚却偷天换日地走到了内战的边缘地带.

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I actually skated, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice

我真的滑冰了——尽管有些踉跄，但没有跌跟头。

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She's losing her marbles. She's teetering on the edge of permanent personality damage.

她快要发疯了, 她正处在永远的性格分裂的边缘.

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She was teetering along / about / around in very high-heeled shoes.

她穿着高跟鞋摇摇晃晃地走着[四处走].

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The construction, real estate and farming, as well as other sectors, are teetering.

同其他部门一样,建筑 、 房地产和农业也摇摇欲坠.

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Suze glances up at my wardrobe, on which are teetering a brown leather case, a lacquered trunk, and three vanity cases.

Suze抬头望了一眼我的衣橱，橱顶上放着一只褐色的皮箱，一只漆皮的大皮箱和三只手提箱包。

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The country is teetering on the brink of civil war.

这个国家正处在内战的边缘。

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