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基本解釋

The big banks still verge on insolvency and they still aren't lending.
大銀行仍然徘徊在破産的邊緣，他們也不貸款。
Their friendship may verge on the servile, but it is never disinterested.
她們的友情甚至到了可供敺使的地步，但從來也到不了無私的程度。
There are some moments of navel-gazing from the almost puritanical reformed characters, and some passages verge on the absurd, but Mr Shone maintains a pace that whips the story back to reality.
書中有些片段是[color=#0000ff]被清教徒[color=#0000ff]戒律洗腦的人物在紙上談兵，而有些段落則接近荒誕，但肖尼保持步調(diào)讓故事廻到現(xiàn)實。

"Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom, with bold action and out-of-the-box thinking that has helped put the brakes on our economic freefall."
This is a little paradise, a paradise on the verge of being lost as the shades lose their leaves.
這是一個微小的天堂，一個隨著葉子的凋落,即將失去的天堂。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.
這是威廉巴特勒葉芝的《葦間風(fēng)》,在新世紀即將到來之際的1899年出版。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選

We should not use dishonest tactics to destabilize competitors, or manipulative communications that verge on propaganda.
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If someone or something verges on a particular state or quality, they are almost the same as that state or quality.