Verge
[vɜːdʒ] or [vɝdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a grass border along a road.
(noun.) the limit beyond which something happens or changes; 'on the verge of tears'; 'on the brink of bankruptcy'.
(verb.) border on; come close to; 'His behavior verges on the criminal'.
手打:梅格--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
(n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
(n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
(n.) A virgate; a yardland.
(n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
(n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
(n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
(n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
(n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
(n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
(n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
(n.) The penis.
(n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
(v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
(v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
尤金伲亚整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Rod, staff, mace.[2]. Edge, brink, border, margin, rim, brim, confine, limit, skirt, point.[3]. Arbor (of a watch-balance), spindle.
v. n. [1]. Tend, incline, slope, lean.[2]. Border, approach, be near.
整理:莫尼卡
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Border, brim, edge, rim, limit, margin, brink, eve
ANT:Heart, depth, center, midst
SYN:Tend, bend, slope, incline, approach, approximate, trend, bear
ANT:Decline, deviate, revert, depart, recede, return, back, retrocede
手打:默文
解釋/意思:
n. a slender green branch a twig: a rod staff or mace or anything like them used as an emblem of authority: extent of jurisdiction (esp. of the lord-steward of the royal household): the brink extreme edge: the horizon: a boundary limit: scope opportunity: in gardening the grass edging of a bed or border.—ns. Ver′ger one who carries a verge or emblem of authority: the beadle of a cathedral church: a pew-opener or attendant in church; Ver′gership; Vergette′ (her.) a pallet.
v.i. to bend or incline: to tend downward: to slope: to tend: to border upon.—n. Ver′gency.—adj. Ver′gent.
克利奥校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Your eccentricity and conceit touch the verge of frenzy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was reduced to the verge of despair, when an open door attracted his attention. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Margaret sighed, as if standing on the verge of some new horror. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Mr Fledgeby appeared to be on the verge of some mutinous expressions, when his hand happened to touch his nose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They hurried away, as soon as they saw me; my agitated mien added to their fear of coming near one who had entered within the verge of contagion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She is— Thank you, I don't want to hear your opinion of Miss Dengelton, said Crispin haughtily; your primeval simplicity at times verges on rudeness. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The conversation exhibiting these unequivocal symptoms of verging on the personal, Mr. Pickwick deemed it a fit point at which to interpose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Keep to common sense, St. John: you are verging on nonsense. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The hands of the clock verging upon the hour of closing the Bank, there was a general set of the current of talkers past Mr. Lorry's desk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- She could shine yet with pale grandeur and steady might; but that star verged already on its judgment-day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
編輯:梅根