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

• Her speaking voice verges on the ridiculous.
  她讲话的声音近乎可笑。
• 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。
• Expressing emotions on the verge of society& On "the complex tone" in female poems of Tang Dynasty
  边缘抒情：论唐代女性诗歌的复调性
• 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。
• 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。
• In a further move to bolster prices, the government is rumoured to be on the verge of reducing a stamp tax on transactions.
  为了进一步稳定股价，有消息证实政府将下调印花税率。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。