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verge on

V 开头单词

基本解释

  • 趋向；接近

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • The big banks still verge on insolvency and they still aren't lending.
    大银行仍然徘徊在破产的边缘，他们也不贷款。
  • Their friendship may verge on the servile, but it is never disinterested.
    她们的友情甚至到了可供驱使的地步，但从来也到不了无私的程度。
  • 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.
    书中有些片段是[color=#0000ff]被清教徒[color=#0000ff]戒律洗脑的人物在纸上谈兵，而有些段落则接近荒诞，但肖尼保持步调让故事回到现实。

    • 原声例句

  • "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.
    这是一个微小的天堂，一个随着叶子的凋落,即将失去的天堂。
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  • This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.
    这是威廉巴特勒叶芝的《苇间风》,在新世纪即将到来之际的1899年出版。
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    • 权威例句

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

    短语

  • verge e on 濒临
  • verge on sth 接近
  • Verge On Bankruptcy 濒于破产
  • verge on complete failure 濒于全面失败
  • verge on collapse 濒于崩溃

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.