If someone is on the margins of agroupofpeople, they arepartof thatgroup, but different inimportantways, and if someone is on the margins of anactivity, they are onlyslightlyinvolved:
（某人）处于…的边缘，对…稍有涉足
Hespentthe 1980s on the margins of Britishpolitics.20世纪80年代他曾稍稍涉足英国政治。
We need toreachout to those on the margins ofsociety.政府需要关注处于社会边缘的人。
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Each newparagraphshould beindentedabout twocentimetresfrom the margin.
She made somejottingsin the margin of thebookshe wasreading.
Sheornamentedherletterswith littledrawingsin the margin.
Writeyourcommentsin the margin of thereportinpencil.
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Books & parts of books
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marginnoun(POSSIBILITY)
[CorU]
something that makes aparticularthingpossible, such as anextraamountofmoney,time, etc.allowedthat makes itpossibletodealwith anemergency:
备用的（金钱，时间等）
There is not much marginforcreativityin ajoblike this.这样的工作没有什么空间让人施展创意。
Theyallowanadditionalsafetymargin of fiveminutesbetweenplanestaking off.他们多给了5分钟时间作为飞机起飞之间的安全间隔。
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The promotion of civic thought in this context might prove to be consistent with the claim that such ideas flourished in the political margins.
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She stresses how much she wants to reject the thinking behind terms such as ' winners and losers, centers and margins, progress and regress ' (p. 5).
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Lithospheric buoyancy and collisional orogenesis: subduction of oceanic plateaus, continental margins, island arcs, spreading ridges, and seamounts.
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Additional notes in the margins of the plan show other possible orderings of the materials or insertions into the main body of the piece.
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Based on the unfinished margins of some of the irregular beads, these were made from the whorl of marine shells.
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Substitutions often involve grotesque imagery of bodily disintegration, and they focus on strange margins close to humans' positions.
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In this context, there are several arguments in favour of transcending locality, or stretching the margins of the geographical nexus between land and locality.
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Daily estimates involve averaging the trial ballot margins from surveys released on a given date.
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The lake margins are convoluted giving rise to numerous shallow bays fringed in many parts by large tropical swamps.
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The book is published without love : it has narrow margins, variable print size and unaccountable changes in font style.
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The following section of this paper is devoted to coping with this lack of accurate stability margins.
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Living in the intellectual space between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, colonizing the margins of erudition was a difficult and hazardous place to inhabit.
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Recent research20 has demonstrated that none of the static stability margins are suitable for measuring robot stability when robot dynamics are relevant.
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Most importantly, the margins separating the various candidates are very small and are rarely statistically significant.
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Instead, strain was accommodated in narrow zones on thrust block margins.
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adequate margin
Anadequatemarginpolicy fairly prices the exchange performance guarantee within an (economically insignificant) neighborhood.
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ample margin
In spite of all this we have anamplemargin.
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anterior margin
Muscular anterior collar continuous, 123-271 (181 30) wide located 80-231 (135 32) from anterior margin.
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