on the verge of

基本解釋

It remains that what we once thought impossible is on the verge of becoming possible.
但是，我們?cè)?jīng)認(rèn)為不可能的事情正在逐漸抵達(dá)可能的邊緣。
Then come two European governments, France and Germany, who issue their debt in a currency that some think is on the verge of breaking up.
接下來(lái)是兩個(gè)歐洲政府：法國(guó)和德國(guó)是以貨幣形式發(fā)行債券的，有人認(rèn)為這些貨幣正處于崩潰的邊緣。
Many of us feel that we ask ourselves these questions because we’re on the verge of regressing back into the shadows of mediocracy.
很多人都會(huì)不由自主的向自己?jiǎn)栠@些問(wèn)題，因?yàn)榇藭r(shí)的我們正處在倒退回到平庸的影子的邊緣。

"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."
This is a little paradise, a paradise on the verge of being lost as the shades lose their leaves.
這是一個(gè)微小的天堂，一個(gè)隨著葉子的凋落,即將失去的天堂。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.
這是威廉巴特勒葉芝的《葦間風(fēng)》,在新世紀(jì)即將到來(lái)之際的1899年出版。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 現(xiàn)代詩(shī)歌課程節(jié)選

But we're on the verge of putting natural language understanding into many of these.
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