On the last morning I spend at his retreat, Dejian shows me his private quarters, a tiny stone cupola perched on the tip of a sheer cliff.

我的最后一个早晨是在释德建的隐居处渡过的，他向我展示了自己的私人宿舍，这是一间小小的石头圆顶房，位于一处陡峭悬崖的顶端。

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The mountain path is rough and rugged. On one side is a sheer cliff.

这条山路非常崎岖，旁边就是陡壁悬崖。

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My friend had grown up by the sea so I knew I could rely on him. He pointed towards a sheer cliff near the channel mouth. "Someone lives over there."

我的同伴到底是海边长大的人，他伸出手往峡口那壁立的巉崖一指：“那里有人家。”

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That, at any rate, is the belief of the Faeroese hardy and tenacious folk whose favourite delicacy, puffin chicks, can only be procured by dangling on a rope hundreds of feet below a sheer cliff-top and robbing the nests of unfortunate seabirds.

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On one side of this huge rock is a sheer 200-foot cliff.

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