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，我們曾經(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.
接下來是兩個(gè)歐洲政府：法國和德國是以貨幣形式發(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)不由自主的向自己問這些問題，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)即將到來之際的1899年出版。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選

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