Meaning: 1. (Noun) Brink, border, edge, the time just before the beginning. 2. (Verb) To be on the brink, border, edge, come close to, border on, to be just before. 3. (British) The shoulder of a road.Notes: We have two qualitative nouns for this word, vergence and vergency...
A. be far from B. be close to C. be opposed to D. be ignorant of 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 B。解析:通过上下文可知,这个短语所在的句子表示一种即将发生的状态,所以“be on the verge of”最接近“be close to”,即“接近、濒临”。反馈 收藏 ...
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The Information reports that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance grew its overall revenue to $73 billion in the first half of 2024 — just shy of Meta’s $75.5 billion. The share of ByteDance’s revenue that comes from TikTok grew to 23 percent, meaning its operations outside of China are...
“What a mistake it had been to close off the meaning of my existence in the rites that Mario offered with cautious conjugal rapture,” she reflects. “What a mistake it had been to entrust the sense of myself to his gratifications, his enthusiasms, to the ever more productive course of...
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And because his account was synced with Lightroom, they appeared there too — meaning there’s basically no delay for photographers to get their snaps ready for editing.
You romanticize yourfin de siècle,imbuing it with meaning, overtones, implications. You are still worried about TV. You are still worried about the anxiety of influence. You say there will be no readers in the future, that there are hardly any readers now. You count your measly 15,000—...
“The first cite for foliot in the TLFi is from Froissart Li Orloge amoureus (electronic version here), an interesting extended conceit apparently composed before 1373. ” Yes, cf. the earlies quotation in OED in this meaning (a link to OED2 entry* is in my comment above): ...