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基本解释

The big banks still verge on insolvency and they still aren't lending.
大银行仍然徘徊在破产的边缘，他们也不贷款。
Their friendship may verge on the servile, but it is never disinterested.
她们的友情甚至到了可供驱使的地步，但从来也到不了无私的程度。
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.
书中有些片段是[color=#0000ff]被清教徒[color=#0000ff]戒律洗脑的人物在纸上谈兵，而有些段落则接近荒诞，但肖尼保持步调让故事回到现实。

"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.
这是一个微小的天堂，一个随着叶子的凋落,即将失去的天堂。
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This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.
这是威廉巴特勒叶芝的《苇间风》,在新世纪即将到来之际的1899年出版。
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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.