When high expectations are thwarted they are apt to throw the confident individual into the blackest pessimism . 过高的期望受到挫折，可以使自信的人陷入失望的深渊。
I approached the verge of despair; a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf . 我接近了绝望的边缘；只有自尊心的一点残余把我和那深渊隔开。
Just as we starting to take those first expensive steps, the country nosedived into a recession . 正当我们着手采取那些代价高昂的步骤时，整个国家便一头栽进经济衰退的深渊。
His deft and skilful handling of the abdication issue raised him in a fortnight from the depth to the pinnacle . 他对逊位问题处理得很机巧，使他在两个星期内从深渊上升到宝塔的尖顶。
Once the machine started skidding they accelerated its descent over the precipice rather than braked it in time . 一旦机器开始下滑，他们不能及时把它刹住，反而会使它滑得更快，落入深渊。
I see honors, happiness, success, shining upon every billow of the dark gulf beneath which i must sink at last . 我最后得葬身于黑暗的深渊，可是在那深渊的滚滚波涛上都闪烁着荣誉、幸福和成就。
Now, just as he had fought his way to the top, his hold had given way and he was pitching down head-long into darkness . 而现在，正当他奋力找到了一条通向顶峰的道路时，攀缘之处突然坍塌，他正在头朝下向黑暗的深渊坠落下去。
It was more merciful to launch the condemned man into twenty-four hours than to keep him shivering on the brink of that dread gulf for three weeks . 把死囚在宣判24小时之后处决，比使他在恐惧深渊的边缘颤抖将近3个星期要更为仁慈些。
Before us was a mighty chasm in the black rock, jagged, torn, and splintered through it in a far past age by some awful convulsion of nature . 我们前面是一道黑黝黝的巨大的深渊，大约很久很久以前一次可怕的大震动将它崩裂撕扯成这种锯齿獠牙般模样。
It was utterly dark in the abyss before my feet 在我脚下的深渊中只有无尽的黑暗
