offing
英 [ˈɒfɪŋ]
美 [ˈɔːfɪŋ]
n. 岸上能见的远处海上（海面）；近岸安全距离；近岸抛锚; （喻）不远的将来
BNC.20477 / COCA.20370
习惯用语
n.
- in the offing
- 即将发生
likely to appear or happen soon - I hear there are more staff changes in the offing.
我听说有更多的人事变动在酝酿中。
柯林斯词典
- PHRASE 即将发生；在酝酿中
If you say that something isin the offing, you mean that it is likely to happen soon.- A general amnesty for political prisoners may be in the offing.
可能即将对政治犯实行大赦。
- A general amnesty for political prisoners may be in the offing.
英英释义
noun
- the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
- there was a ship in the offing
- the near or foreseeable future
- there was a wedding in the offing
双语例句
- If so, more yen selling by the Bank of Japan is surely in the offing.
如果真是这样的话，日本央行（boj）肯定还会继续抛出日元。 - According to a local newspaper, a rise in petrol price is in the offing.
根据一间当地报纸，汽油涨价即将发生。 - US policymakers think it only prudent to imagine that something far worse than the terror attacks of 9/ 11 could be in the offing.
美国决策者认为，唯一谨慎的做法，就是想象可能发生某些比9/11恐怖袭击更坏的事件。 - Thus, Cable Science Network, or CSN, is in the offing.
因此「有线科学电视网」（CSN）即将诞生。 - Forex traders convinced themselves last week that another Plaza Accord is in the offing.
外汇交易员们上周确信，另一个广场协议就要产生了。 - Is a comeback of the state in the offing, a return of big government and regulation?
政府的回归一种大政府和大监管形式的回归是否近在咫尺？ - Put differently, if a ( quasi) private sector solution was in the offing this past weekend, then Mr Paulson and Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, invited the wrong financiers.
换句话说，如果说在上周末，一个（准）私营部门解决方案正在酝酿之中，那么保尔森和纽约联邦储备银行（FederalReserveBankofNewYork）行长蒂莫西•加斯内（TimothyGeithner）找错了求助对象。 - He holds$ 20bn in cash and Treasuries, in case of a big insurance claim or other upset, and can borrow more if he wants ( a European bond issue is in the offing).
他持有200亿美元的现金和国债，以备出现大额保险索赔或者其他剧变，如果他需要，还可以借到更多（正在酝酿发行一只欧洲债券）。 - The key question now confronting the central bank is how much of that slowdown reflects anomalous factors such as a port strike and bad weather, and whether a sharp rebound is in the offing.
美联储目前面临的一个关键问题是：经济放缓在多大程度上反映了码头罢工及恶劣天气等异常因素，美国经济是否很快就会快速反弹。 - Form where we lay anchor, we could see the ships in the offing.
从我们抛锚的地方可以看到近海的船。