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

• 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。
• Strangest of all, Sinn Fein has become part of a governing coalition in Northern Ireland that is so stable as to verge on the boring.
  最奇怪的是，新芬党成为了北爱尔兰统治联盟的一员，并且及其安分守己。
• 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。
• Her speaking voice verges on the ridiculous.
  她讲话的声音近乎可笑。
• See, I was on the verge of breaking on.
  看哪！我曾处在崩溃的边缘。
• It was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.
  当时该国正处于对其国际债务违约的边缘。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。