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

You should be sufficiently confident about your destiny to believe that you are on the verge of great changes, that will put you on another path leaving the old paradigm behind.
你们将充分确立自己的使命，相信自己就处在伟大转变的边缘，它将把你们放置在另一条崭新道路上，脱离旧的实相。
Doesn't that verge rather on shop?
那岂不是快变成商店了？
One state politician has already been forced to resign after describing them as a small incident; another appears to be on the verge of going after taking a movie director and his actor son on a voyeuristic tour of the Taj following the attacks.
一位之前把恐怖袭击称为小事一桩的邦政客已被迫辞职，另一位在袭击后带上一名电影导演和他当演员的儿子去泰姬酒店进行偷窥式的旅行，这位也快要辞职了。
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。
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。
With Carlos Tevez on the verge of signing for Manchester United on loan from West Ham united, two ex-players have offered their opinion on the dimunitive argentine.
随着特维斯从西汉姆租借到曼联的迫近，两名球员一致选择看好阿根廷人。
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。
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。
See, I was on the verge of breaking on.
看哪！我曾处在崩溃的边缘。
Though his ball club is on the verge of regaining their once West Coast dominance, the playmaker can't see the dim light raying on him any different.
尽管他的球队正朝着“重回当年在西海岸的统治地位”的方向进发，但是这位组织核心看不到从他身上发出的朦胧的光芒有什么不同。