1. But until recently, the academic edge gained by participating in sports was thought to come from the increased self-confidence, the better mood, and the ability to concentrate that comes from burning off steam in exercise.
    但直到最近，人们还认为因参加体育运动而获得的学业优势来自于增强的自信、更好的心态，以及由运动时消耗体力所带来的集中注意力的能力。

2. Balanced at the edge of a narrow white platform, I am about to jump head first into a hot new phase of Japan's leisure boom: indoor sky diving, without a parachute.
    我在一块窄窄的白色跳板前端站稳，准备头朝下跳出去。这一跳将跳进日本休闲热中的一个崭新的热门项目：室内蹦极跳，不带降落伞的。

3. We may see only a sliver of light along one edge.
    我们只能看到一个边缘的月牙形光条，

4. The dish now had to be lifted vertically because one edge was resting against the side of the canal.
    馅饼盘必须垂直提升，因为盘的一边靠在运河侧面。

5. They had to edge their way along this, sometimes wading across shallow streams, or swimming across deep pools.
    来到一条狭窄的走廊上。他们不得不侧着身子往前走，有时过浅溪，有时游过深潭。

6. The dish now had to be lifted vertically because one edge was resting against the side of the canal.
    这次，盘子必须垂直吊出水面，因为盘子的一边紧靠着运河河岸。

7. They had rushed up to her while she was having a picnic at the edge of a forest with her children and tried to steal her handbag.
    刚才，当她和孩子们正在森林边上野餐的时候，这两个人冲到她跟前，企图抢走她的手提包。

8. The air was so warm and bright, and I could hear the blackbirds whistling on the edge of the woods, and the Prussians drilling in the meadows behind the sawmill.
    天气多么暖和，多么晴朗呀！林边树梢上画眉在吟唱，锯木厂后面的草坪上传来普鲁士军人操练的声音。

9. That night she went and sat alone upon a bench that stood beneath an oak tree at the edge of the walk.
    那晚她独自一人坐在路边橡树下的长凳上，

10. He fell off the edge of the cliff.
    他从悬崖边上摔了下来.