| EXAMPLE SENTENCES | ||
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如履薄冰，如临深渊。 Skate over thin ice, like standing upon edge of abyss. | ||
翠爱情如履薄冰，痛苦却如影随形。 Love are treading on thin ice, but the pain ruyingsuixing. | ||
他向我提了一大堆问题，弄得我整个晚上战战兢兢如履薄冰。 He asked me many questions, I found myself skating over thin ice the whole evening. | ||
真相就是，我们当中的绝大多数人，在做到正教授之前，都是如履薄冰。 The truth is, most of us walk on egg shells until we become full professors. | ||
我自知自己没有佛菩萨的力量，可以化解，所以行事如临深渊，如履薄冰。 I know clearly that I can't have the power of Buddha and Bodhisattva to balance such forces, so I do everything extremely cautiously. | ||
但是他对我的新工作提了些建议：“你得时刻兢兢业业，如履薄冰。” But the advice he gave me for my new job was: "you'll always want to have butterflies in your stomach." | ||
当他为了请一天的假而进去见主人的时候，他的样子简直如履薄冰。 When he went in to the master for a day off, he looked as though he were treading upon eggs. | ||
