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GRE Barron 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.边缘
• ［英］ n.边缘 ( border; edge, rim, or margin)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, rod, measuring rod, margin, from Anglo-French, rod, area of jurisdiction, from Latin virga twig, rod, line
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a.
    • (1) a rod or staff carried as an emblem of authority or symbol of office
    • (2) obsolete a stick or wand held by a person being admitted to tenancy while he swears fealty
  • b. the spindle of a watch balance; especially a spindle with pallets in an old vertical escapement
  • c. the male copulatory organ of any of various invertebrates
• 2.
  • a. something that borders, limits, or bounds: as
    • (1) an outer margin of an object or structural part
    • (2) the edge of roof covering (as tiling) projecting over the gable of a roof
    • (3) British a paved or planted strip of land at the edge of a road ; shoulder
  • b. brink, threshold <a country on the verge of destruction — Archibald MacLeish>

II. intransitive verb (verged; verging)

• Date: 1787
• 1. to be contiguous
• 2. to be on the verge or border <the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness — Thomas Hardy>

III. intransitive verb (verged; verging)

• Etymology: Latin vergere to bend, incline — more at wrench
• Date: 1610
• 1.
  • a. of the sun to move or tend toward the horizon ; sink
  • b. to move or extend in some direction or toward some condition <verging to a hasty decline — Edward Gibbon>
• 2. to be in transition or change

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