verge on

英 [vɜːdʒ ɒn]

美 [vɜːrdʒ ɑːn]

极其接近; 濒于

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 极其接近;濒于
  If someone or somethingverges ona particular state or quality, they are almost the same as that state or quality.
  1. ...a fury that verged on madness...
     气得快要发疯
  2. Her speaking voice verges on the ridiculous.
     她讲话的声音近乎可笑。

双语例句

• The warm trend of spring temperature will decelerate, or verge on stochastic variation even more, namely, We can't confirm whether warm or cold in future.
  春季气温变暖趋势减缓，或者更接近于随机变化，即未来变暖变冷不能确定。
• You should be sufficiently confident about your destiny to believe that you are on the verge of great changes, that will put you on another path leaving the old paradigm behind.
  你们将充分确立自己的使命，相信自己就处在伟大转变的边缘，它将把你们放置在另一条崭新道路上，脱离旧的实相。
• It was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.
  当时该国正处于对其国际债务违约的边缘。
• With Carlos Tevez on the verge of signing for Manchester United on loan from West Ham united, two ex-players have offered their opinion on the dimunitive argentine.
  随着特维斯从西汉姆租借到曼联的迫近，两名球员一致选择看好阿根廷人。
• The religious faith reduces believers 'fear of death and anxiety on the verge of death through cultivating the control sense which the human pursues effectively, to a certain extent. Fifth, it reveals the influence on self-respect level made by religion belief.
  宗教信念通过有效培育人所追求的控制感，在一定程度上消减了信仰者的死亡恐惧及濒死焦虑。第五，揭示宗教信念对自尊水平的影响。
• When vale settled with its customers last month it was on the verge of launching a takeover bid for Xstrata and needed some good news in order to boost its share price and clinch the deal on favourable terms.
  上月，当淡水河谷与其客户达成协议时，该公司即将发起对斯特拉塔的收购，因此需要一些利好消息来推高其股价，以便以有利的条件达成交易。
• But now, the European Central Bank looks to be on the verge of an extensive new effort to try to pump money into the European economy to get it out of its doldrums, which is creating downward pressure on the euro.
  但是现在，欧洲央行（EuropeanCentralBank）似乎即将采取大规模行动，设法为欧洲经济注入资金，使之摆脱低迷。欧洲经济的低迷正在促使欧元下行。
• One state politician has already been forced to resign after describing them as a small incident; another appears to be on the verge of going after taking a movie director and his actor son on a voyeuristic tour of the Taj following the attacks.
  一位之前把恐怖袭击称为小事一桩的邦政客已被迫辞职，另一位在袭击后带上一名电影导演和他当演员的儿子去泰姬酒店进行偷窥式的旅行，这位也快要辞职了。
• On the verge of tears; a nation on the verge of economic prosperity.
  几乎要流泪了；一个经济即将繁荣的国家。
• See, I was on the verge of breaking on.
  看哪！我曾处在崩溃的边缘。