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

• Strangest of all, Sinn Fein has become part of a governing coalition in Northern Ireland that is so stable as to verge on the boring.
  最奇怪的是，新芬党成为了北爱尔兰统治联盟的一员，并且及其安分守己。
• 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。
• 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。
• France is on the verge of elimination from the tournament, their 2-0 defeat to Mexico on Friday forcing tension between management and players into the open.
  法国队目前处于被淘汰的边缘，在上周五的比赛中，他们0-2负于墨西哥队，从而使得教练组和球员之间的紧张状态公开化。
• 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。
• 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。
• When that happened, the losing group burned the flag of the winning group and raided their camp; the two groups were on the verge of declaring all-out war on each other.
  结果公布时，失败一方烧掉了获胜一方的旗帜，袭击了对方的营地。两个小组处于全面宣战的边缘。
• 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。
• Even more important are the fragile political underpinnings of global economic integration: the US is on the verge of what may ultimately prove the most significant defeat in its history; an attack on Iran looks possible; and North Korea has become a nuclear power.
  更重要的是，全球经济整合的政治支柱十分脆弱：美国可能遭受其历史上最惨痛的失败；可能会对伊朗进行军事打击；朝鲜已成为一个核国家。
• 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。