And I believe we pulled the economy back from the abyss." To combat a crippling credit freeze, central banks slashed interest rates and pumped cash into credit markets.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

All of this monistic philosophy, I think, is implicit in the image of divinity's impregnation of the vast abyss.

这所有的一元论观点，我认为，都可从神灵孕育洪荒这一意象中看出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It has to be a bigger distance, a broader abyss, and that's what Iser is working with in the passages I'm about to quote.

它必须是一个更大的距离，更宽的深渊，这就是伊瑟尔在我想引用的那些话里面所试图说明的。

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And today's transition is further proof that those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

He sliced through the treacherous Golden Eagle and Abyss sections that had doomed many others in a driving blizzard.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09