verge

1 Now they were on the verge of actually making it happen.

2 He had dreamed about ships like this, about being on their decks, about sailing on them, and now he was on the verge of sneaking aboard one.

3 But here are nine reasons why Sacramento seems to be a city on the verge:1.

4 I breeze into the kitchen and sure enough, there is a tray of chocolate mousse, the whipped cream dollops just on the verge of sagging.

5 “If we ever meet again, Hazel-rah,” said Dandelion, as he took cover in the grass verge, “we ought to have the makings of the best story ever.”

6 And once they heard a corncrake calling as it crept among the long grass of a path verge.

7 He said he was on the verge of an evolutionary breakthrough.

他说他马上就要出现一个“进化上的突破”了.

8 At this time in the cycle bit on the verge of a phase of transition.

这时在比特周期的边缘出现相位的跳变.

9 Never down and out, but several times on the verge of it.

10 Before long, Rodney was looking defensive and on the verge of giving up.

11 Annabeth wasn’t exactly sure what was going on, but she understood that Percy was on the verge of big trouble.

12 Thomas had almost expected the skeletal remnant of a person—someone on the verge of death.

13 The United States was already on the verge of war with Great Britain, and this development was cause for more alarm.

14 She didn’t answer this one for so long, he thought she wasn’t going to and was on the verge of asking again when she said, “It’s too soon to tell.”

15 I was on the verge of yelling, even if it lost my mother business.

16 I was on the verge of asking her to take it back and give me a refund when the clerk emerged from the back room carrying the puzzle box all wrapped in pink paper.

17 Maddy, in her ever-deepening fixation with the show, embarks on a journey to outer and inner realms that both make for an ordinary yet harrowing odyssey, a near-metaphysical journey into a level of fandom that verges on madness.

18 The meeting was verging to a close.

会议接近结束.

19 I spend the next two classes on the verge of tears.

20 Not only did the building seem on the verge of collapse, it appeared completely deserted.

1 接近

coadjacent up close near adjacent oncoming about along fast nearly closely nigh access approach touch presence neighborhood proximity vicinity approximation accession closeness contiguity adit propinquity appulse on rising forby draw extend hang zero approximate trench accede come put push nudge get a smell at get on toward move toward get hot appulsive warm upcoming proximal appulsively hard appulsion advance nearness adjacency vicinage adjacence inby begin anear verge to close upon get on for access to go on for close quarters sub- towards gain rise border on the way in the region of getting on for connection shadow forthcoming juxtaposition with around neighbor gain access to draw near about the ear make advances to hard upon hot contiguous neighbourhood conversance conversancy join gather entrench contact neighbour abut ad-

2 范围

scouth area line country range size field reach limit land measure ground region length zone domain stretch circle circuit extent danger scope universe dimension territory province kingdom span spectrum gauge sweep horizon realm terrain envelope sphere radius bound confine incidence compass fetch hemisphere latitude zodiac orb precinct tether purview ambit demesne circumscription in way round direction spread coverage extension context boundary margin liberty lap reign pale diapason purlieu

3 节杖

baton

4 逼近

impending fast menacingly approach draw gather overhang impend close

5 圈

world ring hoop cot

6 界限

line term limit measure mark edge parameter boundary margin horizon threshold butt termination bound confine compass fringe perimeter zodiac terminus circumscription Rubicon spread pale precinct ambit phylactery bourn purlieu extent limitation hedge confinement purview bourne

7 路肩

shoulder

8 近乎

next door to

9 镶边

band curb facing inset edging purfling purfle face

10 倾斜

banking slope bias prone tilt inclined gradient declining slant oblique tipsy splay swash cant raked slanting sidelong sideling inclinatory slantwise aslant Agee atilt aslope slopewise set list version bank tip lean heel dip hanging cock rake inclination shelving bevel camber leaning declension obliquity declivity fall trip hang nose ramp nod sway sag incline stoop underlay hade sklent top weight

11 临界点

edge threshold critical point

12 柱身

shaft shank scape frustum

13 下沉

depression DIP sag cave-in slump subside settle sink gravitate

14 倾向

-ile -il apt. set turn drive current direction wind trend stream cast talent tone liability lean strain determination tendency bias genius vein drift tide streak tilt hue disposition temper inclination ply tenor aptitude slant propensity penchant squint predisposition lurch leaning gravitation proclivity animus habitude look stomach orientation -ative mind lean to apt inclinable movement taste habit bent point tend incline gravitate bend dispose predispose -philia appetite humour affection climate swing pulse polarity colouring proneness aptness disposure run

15 邻接

contact immediate approximate adjoining contiguous abutting coterminous conterminous vicinal abutment contiguity join confine adjoin abut touch neighbor

16 推移

advance progress passage transit lapse pass modulate

17 境界

demarcation land mark pale confine precinct mete limes bourne bourn

18 极限

term limit terminal utmost the end of the line ultima Thule saturation point

19 边界

marginal limit boundary frontier precinct outskirt abuttal

20 权标

fasces

21 毗连

adjacent coterminous conterminous adjacency abut border adjoin neighboring contiguous neighbor butt

22 边缘

peripheral marginal marginally board lip margin rim skirt limb fringe brink periphery selvage marge limbus margent limbic edge border flap hem marginality selvedge perimeter edging curb brim ragged edge tangential outskirts side brow borderland phylactery margo end corner frontier skirting

23 濒临

brink within an ace of on the verge of on the point of

24 端

end edge margin Port

25 环

annular link ring collar hoop coronal annulus

26 变化

transmutative shifting sliding mutant inflected mutative trop- break change play turn variety movement behavior progress shift transition reduction variation swing mutation alteration inequality variance modulation transmutation come-and-go trans- mutate range pass reduce vary slide flux modulate wag inflect alchemize

27 轴

axial axile axis shaft wrist roller axle stalk spindle shank arbor

28 边沿

board border margin brim

29 趋向

run order drive direction trend tone tendency inclination look tend proclivity at toward lean tenor make

30 边

member side board edge surround border loop lip margin rim skirt hem brim brink edging pleuro-

31 即将

rising about to V be about V ing going to on the verge of at the point of

32 斜向

slant slue

33 快要

halfway on the edge of be going on the verge of

34 路边

roadside wayside curbside kerbside on-street

35 权杖

staff wand crook baton mace scepter warder truncheon crosier rod Mace Rod sceptre