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单词 impend
释义
impend
verb[I]
formal
uk
/ɪmˈpend/us
/ɪmˈpend/
If aneventimpends, usually aneventthat isunpleasantorunwanted, it is going tohappensoon:
即将发生；逼近
Acrisisofhugeproportionsimpends in thearea.这个地区即将发生一场规模巨大的危机。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
About to happen
  • (just) around the corneridiom
  • about
  • at handidiom
  • be on the point of(doing) somethingidiom
  • be ready to rollidiom
  • beckon
  • come up
  • corner
  • horizon
  • impending
  • in the airidiom
  • in the pipelineidiom
  • in-store
  • loom
  • ready
  • stare
  • staresomeonein the faceidiom
  • store
  • teeter
  • teeter on the brink/edge ofsomethingidiom
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(Definition ofimpendfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimpend

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Ultimately, it was simply a sign of sheer decay and of impending death - though it could herald eternal glory.
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And the dislocated and fragmented vocal lines, along with the relentlessness of the drum track, signal her impending breakdown.
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Operant conditioning and learning can also act on these thresholds giving anticipatory distress faces both to impending stimuli and to painful thoughts.
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The news of her impending death led to the gathering of her children, who confer red about the possible course of action.
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They measure the pressure on international reserves which could arise from market expectations about impending currency changes.
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My father-in-law was very worried, and we had made arrangements for him to warn us of any impending perils by a code.
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The sheer density of documentation and numerous injunctions against labor mobility reflect these high rates as well as the government's sense of impending crisis.
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Many of the old-age home residents turned their common experience into a social world that focused on seclusion and impending death.
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Like a steady drumbeat, the answer in every chapter is the impending workforce shortage.
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The feathers are symbolic of his impending death.
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In true experiments as well as in numerical simulations, intermittency is a sign of impending chaos.
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The penultimate chapter deals with the role of memory and the search for personal meaning in response to impending death in a death-denying society.
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The data revealed experiences of existential loneliness with the impending death as a primary source.
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The finding was almost always a manifestation of another fetal disease process and seemed to be the earliest sign of impending hydrops.
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Contemporary-era studies of last-term effects are restricted to examining only impending retirees.
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