柯林斯英汉双解大词典
verge on ( verging, verged, verges )
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PHRASAL VERB If someone or something verges on a particular state or quality, they are almost the same as that state or quality. 接近
例：...a fury that verged on madness.
…一种近乎疯狂的暴怒。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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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。
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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。
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The mountain gorilla is on the verge of extinction.
居住在山区的大猩猩已濒临灭绝。
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"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."
VOA: special.2009.08.28
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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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