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常見例句

She was about to speak when she was stopped by her sister.
她剛要說話，被她姐姐攔住了。
The manager was about to leave when his secretary called him back.
經(jīng)理剛要走，他的秘書又把他叫了廻來。
Every one feels that a disaster is imminent, as if a catastrophe is about to come.
誰都感到大事不好，似乎有什麼極大的災(zāi)難即將來臨。
《新英漢大辤典》

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."
The two passages that I'm about to read juxtapose the viewpoints that I've been trying to evoke in describing Gadamer's position.
我要讀的這兩篇文章在某些觀點(diǎn)上是竝行的,我在講伽達(dá)默爾的看法時(shí)想激發(fā)的就是這些觀點(diǎn)。
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And she looks like she's about to pass out because her bag is so filled with so many objects. I mean,
她看起來就快暈過去了，因爲(wèi)她提的袋子實(shí)在是裝了太多東西了。我是說，
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When the crowd is too bullish or bearish, the trend is about to reverse.
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