1. They lived in the twilight zone on the fringes of society. 他们生活在社会边缘的过渡区域。
2. In New Zealand the plant has spread rapidly, changing mudflats with marshy fringes to extensive salt meadows and reducing the number and kinds of birds and animals that use the marsh. 在新西兰，这种植物传播地很快，它将沼泽地的边缘变成了广阔的盐土草地，并且使利用那片沼泽（生存）的鸟类和动物的数量和种类下降。
3. The jacket had leather fringes. 这件上衣饰有皮流苏。
4. Therefore, these social traits helped to produce the nomadic and daring settlers who kept pushing westward beyond the fringes of settlement. 因此，这些社会特征有利于造就流浪在外并且大胆的移民，这些移民会一直向西迁移到比定居点更遥远的地方。
