border on

英 [ˈbɔːdə(r) ɒn]

美 [ˈbɔːrdər ɑːn]

和…毗邻; 与…接壤; 接近; 近似

柯林斯词典

• See also:He has never exhibited the self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, of his predecessor...The atmosphere borders on the surreal.border

英英释义

verb

• come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
  1. This borders on discrimination!
  2. His playing approaches that of Horowitz
  Synonym:approach

双语例句

• Second, offers of NATO membership to countries that border on Russia are provocative.
  其次，邀请与俄罗斯接壤的国家加入北约具有挑衅性。
• Ten years ago, World Bank officials would make arcane distinctions between concepts such as "adaptive corruption" and "dysfunctional corruption" that to their audience seemed to border on rationalisation.
  10年前，世界银行（worldbank）的官员还会解释诸如“适应性腐败”和“职能缺失性腐败”等概念之间的晦涩区别，他们的解释在听者耳朵里似乎还有点道理。
• We're not going to get across the border on the ground.
  我们不可能在陆地上穿过边境。
• But it is undeniable that certain fairly expensive aspects of the current tax system favour the most fortunate and border on the indefensible.
  但有一点无可否认，现行税制中一些代价相当高昂的方面对最幸运的人群有利，几乎完全没有道理。
• It is one of those strange phenomena that sometimes border on the fantastic.
  梦游是那种有时近似于奇异怪诞的不可思议的现象之一。
• There seems to be at least built in to Aristotle's account of politics a certain flexibility a certain latitude of discretion that in some passages even seems to border on a kind of relativism.
  那看似建入于，亚里士多德对政治的描述，某种弹性，某种恣意的判断力，在有些段落甚至，看起来近似一种相对论。
• Its northern suburbs adjoin Staffordshire, and its southern and southwestern suburbs border on Hereford and Worcester.
  它的北部郊区毗邻斯塔福德郡。南部和西南部的郊区与赫里福德伍斯特郡接壤。
• Override this property if you want to customize the appearance of the border on the upper-left header cell.
  如果您希望自定义左上角标题单元格的边框外观，请重写此属性。
• Such designs can border on camp or tacky, in the wrong hands.
  如果搭配不当，这种设计看上去像是去露营或是捡破烂的。
• Instead they should border on art.
  相反，它们应该近似于艺术。