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

• See, I was on the verge of breaking on.
  看哪！我曾处在崩溃的边缘。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Verge line pattern on the leaf could be stably inherited.
  线艺春兰叶片上的腹轮艺通过组培可以稳定遗传。
• 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。
• Silicon Valley is on the verge of a new bout of Wall Street fever, as private technology companies rush to cash in on the first signs of stock market interest in initial public offerings for more than two years, according to venture capitalists.
  风险资本家表示，随着私人科技公司急于利用两年多来股市对首次公开发行（ipo）产生兴趣的第一波迹象获利，硅谷（siliconvalley）即将出现一轮新的上市热潮。