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Перевод: verge
[существительное]
край ; грань ; граница ; кайма ; край крыши; стержень колонны; берма ; обочина ; обочина дороги; кайма из дерна вокруг клумбы; жезл ; посох ;
[глагол]
приближаться; клониться
Тезаурус:
- His call coincided, however, with the mobilisation in Serbia of reservists, suggesting that the Yugoslav army may be on the verge of intervention in the newly independent Bosnia.
- It was her solitary research and activism during the 1970s which alerted the world to the fact that despite the end of large-scale hunting in the 1950s, numbers had continued to decline, and the whales were on the verge of extinction.
- It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide.
- In January 1956, Dulles, still apparently comforted by his country's nuclear armoury, made his "brinkmanship" speech: "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.
- By the end of the 1980s the Nicaraguan economy was on the verge of collapse.
- Now, six months later, he is on the verge of being capped for New Zealand.
- Did you leave them there on the verge? he asked me.
- For better or for worse the studio system the moguls created, dubbed by its detractors as the slave trade, which had discovered and nursed the greatest names of Hollywood of three decades, and probably ever, was on the verge of collapse, though as Elizabeth Taylor put it so succinctly: "The death rattle seemed never ending."
- The reported death of Polonius causes Dycarbas's final collapse, and brings Terentia to the verge of suicide.
- On the verge of tears, Mr Wolk went on television to appeal to people to refrain from taking to the streets, and urged them instead to keep a lit candle in their window.
- US Economy on the Verge of Depression
- The Old Testament bears frequent witness to Israel's sense of being under attack from her God, and being brought by him to the verge of extinction.
- I think I was just on the verge of making one."
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