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[编辑]impending (無比較級)
- 即将到来的,即将发生的
- 近義詞:imminent、in the offing、proximate;亦參見Thesaurus:impending
- I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.
- 我现在没时间,论文要截稿了。
- 2021年12月7日, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, 出自 AV Club[1]:
- Randall and Kate aren’t satirical characters. They’re rational thinkers who unwittingly stumble into a Dr. Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’s impending doom, and team up with Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) to report their findings to President Orlean (Meryl Streep).
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[编辑]impending (複數 impendings)
- 即将发生的事
- 1934, Arabella Kenealy, The Human Gyroscope:
- Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.
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- 1994, Steve Garvey, quoted in 2000, Nicholas Barnes, Ainin H. Garvey, The Lost Writings of Steve Garvey (page 23)
- Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]