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

• 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。
• Doesn't that verge rather on shop?
  那岂不是快变成商店了？
• 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。
• The religious faith reduces believers 'fear of death and anxiety on the verge of death through cultivating the control sense which the human pursues effectively, to a certain extent. Fifth, it reveals the influence on self-respect level made by religion belief.
  宗教信念通过有效培育人所追求的控制感，在一定程度上消减了信仰者的死亡恐惧及濒死焦虑。第五，揭示宗教信念对自尊水平的影响。
• 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。
• Her speaking voice verges on the ridiculous.
  她讲话的声音近乎可笑。
• 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。
• Apple is on the verge of launching an ipod-powered mobile phone to cash in on the growing market in combined phone and music players, it was reported last night.
  据昨晚的报道，苹果电脑公司已经准备推出一款具备ipod功能的移动电话，以便在日益增长的手机播放器市场分一杯羹。
• 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。
• 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。