on the verge of

常见例句

It remains that what we once thought impossible is on the verge of becoming possible.
但是，我们曾经认为不可能的事情正在逐渐抵达可能的边缘。
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.
接下来是两个欧洲政府：法国和德国是以货币形式发行债券的，有人认为这些货币正处于崩溃的边缘。
Many of us feel that we ask ourselves these questions because we’re on the verge of regressing back into the shadows of mediocracy.
很多人都会不由自主的向自己问这些问题，因为此时的我们正处在倒退回到平庸的影子的边缘。

"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.
这是一个微小的天堂，一个随着叶子的凋落,即将失去的天堂。
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This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.
这是威廉巴特勒叶芝的《苇间风》,在新世纪即将到来之际的1899年出版。
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But we're on the verge of putting natural language understanding into many of these.
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Senate Republicans are on the verge of a full-scale revolt against the White House.
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