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单词 verge
释义
verge
noun[C]
uk
/vɜːdʒ/us
/vɝːdʒ/
theedgeorborderof something:
边；边缘；边沿
They set upcampon the verge of thedesert.他们在沙漠边缘扎下了营地。
UK
(USshoulder)
thestripoflandthatbordersaroadorpath:
路边；路肩
Shelefthercarby thesideof theroadandwalkedalong thegrassverge to theemergencyphone.她把车停在公路旁，沿着长满草的路边走到了紧急电话亭。
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Edges & extremities of objects
  • -rimmed
  • apex
  • apical
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  • bevel
  • border
  • bottom
  • brow
  • circumference
  • edge
  • foot
  • front
  • palm-fringed
  • perimeter
  • peripheral
  • periphery
  • rim
  • rimless
  • tip
  • vertex
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Idiom

on the verge (of)
(Definition ofvergefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

verge| American Dictionary

verge
noun[C]
us
/vɜrdʒ/
theedge,border, orlimitof something

Idiom

on the verge ofsomething
(Definition ofvergefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofverge

verge
At one extreme, where discourse verged off toward real demeanor, disgust could manifest itself demonstratively in acts of snobbery.
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Marked passages also hint at a representational content that verges away from a single source or from a cohesive intention.
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While the excited crowd gathered round, suddenly and unexpectedly there was a new vortex of the festival, verging on the threshold of a challenge.
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Caution verging on scepticism is indeed the tone struck in all three of these volumes.
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The ruler continued to enjoy, unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky, a respect which sometimes verged on worship.
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Despite its radical rhetoric, which often verged on socialism, the rebellion stayed within the bounds of a capitalistic framework, the traditional formula of the day.
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Although this point verges on the platitudinous, it is nonetheless an important one.
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At times, the forced participation in collective violence against the willful verged on riot.
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Almost by definition, these attacks tended to occur in public as opposed to private spaces, most notably pleasure gardens, parks and the verges of roads.
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In many cases, however, it verges on impossibility to reach a definite conclusion.
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The slightly overturned antiform verges towards the southeast.
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The contents appear to be a somewhat unplanned collection of papers, in which the presentation of a few verges on the summary.
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Agricultural production beyond subsistence verges on the pointless where product markets are remote and costly to reach.
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His famed ' supernatural ' powers even verged on what, within the dichotomised understanding of rational-irrational, was regarded as ridiculous.
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Sinistrally verging, steeply plunging folds deform many of the thrustrelated faults.
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Collocationswithverge

verge

These are words often used in combination withverge.

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grass verge
I talk to him, by the grass verge and the trees.
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on the verge of bankruptcy
After 18 years in business he $ had some unfortunate losses and was on thevergeofbankruptcyin 1791.
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on the verge of collapse
Another panelist observed that many people see globalization as a form of tyranny, and as such, may be on thevergeofcollapse.
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