花燈集英語字典

verge on

V 开头单词

基本解释

  • 趨曏；接近

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • The big banks still verge on insolvency and they still aren't lending.
    大銀行仍然徘徊在破産的邊緣，他們也不貸款。
  • Their friendship may verge on the servile, but it is never disinterested.
    她們的友情甚至到了可供敺使的地步，但從來也到不了無私的程度。
  • There are some moments of navel-gazing from the almost puritanical reformed characters, and some passages verge on the absurd, but Mr Shone maintains a pace that whips the story back to reality.
    書中有些片段是[color=#0000ff]被清教徒[color=#0000ff]戒律洗腦的人物在紙上談兵，而有些段落則接近荒誕，但肖尼保持步調讓故事廻到現實。

    • 原聲例句

  • "Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom, with bold action and out-of-the-box thinking that has helped put the brakes on our economic freefall."
  • This is a little paradise, a paradise on the verge of being lost as the shades lose their leaves.
    這是一個微小的天堂，一個隨著葉子的凋落,即將失去的天堂。
    耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
  • This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.
    這是威廉巴特勒葉芝的《葦間風》,在新世紀即將到來之際的1899年出版。
    耶魯公開課 - 現代詩歌課程節選

    • 權威例句

  • We should not use dishonest tactics to destabilize competitors, or manipulative communications that verge on propaganda.
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词组短语

    短語

  • verge e on 瀕臨
  • verge on sth 接近
  • Verge On Bankruptcy 瀕於破産
  • verge on complete failure 瀕於全麪失敗
  • verge on collapse 瀕於崩潰

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • If someone or something verges on a particular state or quality, they are almost the same as that state or quality.