| 词汇 | impend |
| 释义 | impend verb[ I ] formaluk /ɪmˈpend/ us /ɪmˈpend/ If an event impends, usually an event that is unpleasant or unwanted, it is going to happen soon: 即将发生;逼近 A crisis of huge proportions impends in the area.这个地区即将发生一场规模巨大的危机。 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 stare someone in the faceidiom store teeter teeter on the brink/edge of somethingidiom Examples of impendimpend Ultimately, it was simply a sign of sheer decay and of impending death - though it could herald eternal glory. And the dislocated and fragmented vocal lines, along with the relentlessness of the drum track, signal her impending breakdown. Operant conditioning and learning can also act on these thresholds giving anticipatory distress faces both to impending stimuli and to painful thoughts. The news of her impending death led to the gathering of her children, who confer red about the possible course of action. They measure the pressure on international reserves which could arise from market expectations about impending currency changes. My father-in-law was very worried, and we had made arrangements for him to warn us of any impending perils by a code. 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. Many of the old-age home residents turned their common experience into a social world that focused on seclusion and impending death. Like a steady drumbeat, the answer in every chapter is the impending workforce shortage. The feathers are symbolic of his impending death. In true experiments as well as in numerical simulations, intermittency is a sign of impending chaos. 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. The data revealed experiences of existential loneliness with the impending death as a primary source. The finding was almost always a manifestation of another fetal disease process and seemed to be the earliest sign of impending hydrops. Contemporary-era studies of last-term effects are restricted to examining only impending retirees. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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