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

• Doesn't that verge rather on shop?
  那岂不是快变成商店了？
• 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。
• Such a large decline in exports will probably mean more factories on the verge of bankruptcy and a further increase in unemployment, on top of the 20m migrant workers who have already lost their jobs from the export sector.
  出口如此大幅的下降，很可能意味着更多工厂处于破产边缘，失业率将进一步上升。中国出口行业已经有2000万农民工丢掉了工作。
• Expressing emotions on the verge of society& On "the complex tone" in female poems of Tang Dynasty
  边缘抒情：论唐代女性诗歌的复调性
• 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。
• Her speaking voice verges on the ridiculous.
  她讲话的声音近乎可笑。
• 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。
• 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。
• He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is on the verge of something else also.
  他望着，老想笑，也老想着要干其他的事。
• 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。