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

• Though his ball club is on the verge of regaining their once West Coast dominance, the playmaker can't see the dim light raying on him any different.
  尽管他的球队正朝着“重回当年在西海岸的统治地位”的方向进发，但是这位组织核心看不到从他身上发出的朦胧的光芒有什么不同。
• See, I was on the verge of breaking on.
  看哪！我曾处在崩溃的边缘。
• 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。
• The international financial crisis and especially GE Corporation on the verge of bankruptcy due to financial business and other factors, arouses public concern and reflection on the pattern of industrial and financial capital combination again.
  国际金融危机的爆发，特别是美国GE公司因受金融业务风险敞口过大等因素影响而一度濒临困境，产业集团的产融结合模式再度引起社会关注和反思。
• 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。
• 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。
• But now perhaps we are at a most critical point on the verge of controlling nature and on the brink of destroying it.
  但，现在也许我们处在一个关键的时刻：在控制自然的边缘，也在毁灭她的边缘。
• Dharmakara began as a bodhisattva, a person who, on the verge of nirvana, refuses entry in or-der to aid others on earth.
  法藏比斤先成菩萨一一这是一种处在涅？边缘但为了救助世人而拒绝进入其中的人。他为自己立下了要实现的四十八人愿。
• 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。
• 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。