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1 "These four classic novels each represent a real moment in our recent history when Britain was on the cusp of great social and cultural change," said Moore.

2 “National Socialism had deep roots, and yet its growth could have been arrested. “I was born into a world on the cusp of avoidable disaster,” he continued.

3 For sheer melodramatic ripeness on the cusp of noir, "The Bad and the Beautiful" — perfection.

4 Since pivoting from periods to incontinence, Smillie believes she is on the cusp of a breakthrough.

5 It's one that Hayworth bought from what was then her up-and-coming designer friend on the cusp of fame.

6 “And now I’m on the cusp of 56. Fifty-six! I have to work hard to keep myself up — nutrition, fitness. Luckily, I like to sweat.”

7 He's also on the cusp of turning 18 and deciding on which college to attend, which should be a simple decision.

8 She was an early employee of the Tom Douglas restaurant empire, leaving that job on the cusp of the urban-farming movement to start her own food-gardening business.

9 Björk was, as she has so often placed herself throughout her career, on the cusps of nature and technology, raw emotion and complex artifice.

10 A child of professors, she found her “happy place” at universities, she said, and realized that helping serious students on the cusp of their careers was what she wanted to do.

11 The toys' owner, Andy, is now grown to the cusp of adulthood, and off to college any minute, and he must decide what to do with his old playmates.

12 But those noises intruded on the opening piece, Hannah Lash’s “Frayed,” during which the Jack Quartet often hovered on the cusp of inaudibility.

13 Yet it raises a fleeting question in the mind, the same question that returns in different ways throughout the piece: Aren’t all these characters on the cusp of sexual experience?

14 In the early ’80s, “aerobics was such a new industry, it attracted dancers and people on the cusp of show business,” Ms. Niland said.

15 Piazza Vittorio, once on the cusp of being the city’s “it” neighborhood, with an ethnic market and elegant apartments built for noblemen, had become an outdoor flop house.

16 And in one sequence, reminiscent of a scene from the prototypical rock musical “Hair,” a man on the cusp of middle age read an open letter to his parents.

17 “I think brandy is on the cusp of having its moment,” Heron says.

18 The popularity of the plush pile is a sign that luxury is on the cusp of a comeback.

19 "A Guide to the Labyrinth" offers a staggering portrait of an artist on the cusp of greater things.

20 As it happens, he never stopped making vital, bridling music at the cusp of postbop and free jazz.

1 有尖

peaked pronged

2 波峰

peak

3 尖点

cuspidal spinode

4 转折点

divide milestone watershed turning point crisis crossroads

5 过渡期

transition run-out interregnum

6 顶点

vertical apical zenithal top full head height peak ultimate pink pride summit APEX vertex climax pinnacle meridian zenith crescendo acme tip-top copestone climactic cacumen pitch crown sum supreme strain tide noon blossom crest ape apex payoff culmination capstone spire consummation apotheosis sublimity capper topgallant be-all topnotch top notch

7 尖端

tip peak frontier point apex nib neb spike jut APEX top pinnacle spearhead fang acro- shovel sophistication spire end toe NEB

8 牙尖

fang

9 尖头

point Sharp prong tusk tine neb cuspidate tip acumination oxycephaly nib acumen sharp acrocephalic pronged sharp-nosed cuspate acrocephalia

10 顶

top roof crest vertex

11 尖

argute acute pointed pointy aculeate mucro nib peak cuspidal spiculate cuspidate spicate sharp angular pungent picked spinous knife-edged piked point

12 尖角

angular angle pointed horn sharp-angled

13 有尖的

peaked pronged

14 分界线

boundary watershed borderline demarcation

15 交点

intersection