Sun Shaoping knew that the family's situation was on the edge of collapse.

少平知道，家里的光景现在已经临近崩溃。

The village moral order is on the edge of collapse, and the village is no longer an acquaintance community.

乡土逻辑变异使得村庄道德秩序濒临瓦解，村庄因而不再是“熟人社会”。

When Lehman was allowed to fail, financial markets froze, and for a few weeks the world economy teetered on the edge of collapse.

当雷曼垮掉之后，金融市场就冻结了，然后接下来的几个星期里，全球的经济就在崩溃的边缘摇摇欲坠。