Due to their meager salaries, they always live on the edge of bankruptcy.

由于及其微薄的收入，他们常常生活在破产的边缘。

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the state budget is still in surplus even as California and New York teeter on the edge of bankruptcy.

州预算仍有盈余，而加州、纽约州还在破产边缘摇晃。

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Housing repossessions are still very rare; the state budget is still in surplus even as California and New York teeter on the edge of bankruptcy.

收回房屋抵押的情况还很少见；州预算仍有盈余，而连加利福尼亚州和纽约州都已经在破产边缘摇摇欲坠了。

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Hyperinflation and high interest rates embroiled Brazil a year later, and CBD teetered on the edge of bankruptcy.

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By 1494, the bank had been forced to close almost all its branches and was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

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Now teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, Greece was first sanctioned for violating the European growth and stability pact in 2005.

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