1. the rim of ···的邊緣

例句：I have sought it, next,because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.
我尋求愛情，其次是因為愛情可以排解孤獨一那是一顆震顫的心，就好比在世界的邊緣，俯瞰那冰冷死寂、毫無生氣的深淵。

2. in the union of 在···的結合中

例句：I have sought it, finally,because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature,the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
我尋求愛情，最后是因為在愛情的結合中，我看到圣徒和詩人們所夢想的天堂景象的縮影。

3. the whole world of ···的全世界，全球性的

例句：Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors,helpless old people a burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
饑餓中的孩子，受暴君壓迫的人們，變成子女負擔的孤苦無依的老人，以及全球性的孤獨，貧窮和痛苦，變成了對人類生活理想的莫大諷刺。

4. long to 渴望

例句：I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
我常常希望能減輕這些痛苦，但卻無法做到，因此我自己也十分痛苦。