“如履薄冰，如临深渊”【英】

“treading on thin ice or standing upon theedge of an abyss”

译文来源

中国关键词（第一辑）：英文/中国外文出版发行事业局、中国翻译研究院著；韩清月、徐明强、蔡力坚译.--北京：新世界出版社，2016：77

例句

1. 习近平主席2013年3月在接受巴西媒体采访时提出，领导者要深入了解复杂的国情和人民的多元需求，要有“如履薄冰，如临深渊”的自觉，以烹小鲜的态度治理社会，丝毫不敢懈怠，丝毫不敢马虎，必须夙夜在公、勤勉工作。——《中国关键词》（第一辑） ，2016：76

1. Responding to a question from a Brazilianreporter in March 2013, President Xi Jinping saidthat leaders must develop a clear understandingof the complexity of their country’s realities andthe diversified needs of their people. They must,he continued, be aware that governing a countryis like “treading on thin ice or standing upon theedge of an abyss.” It was essential, he added, toexercise extreme care and due diligence all the timein performing government functions in the samemanner as we cook a small fish.—Quoted from KEYWORDS TO UNDERSTAND CHINA, 2016: 77