单词
imminent
读音
ˈɪmɪnənt
美式
英式
词根
"Imminent"的词根来自于拉丁语"imminere"，意思是“threaten"或“overhang”。
释义
adj. 即将来临的；迫近的
例句
There's been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time.
很长一段时间以来，一直有关于文化文明即将死亡的警告。
Some rickshaw pullers I met were resigned to the imminent end of their livelihood and pin their hopes on being offered something in its place.
我见过一些车夫，他们已经对他们的生活即将走到穷途末路的情形逆来顺受，寄希望于能有什么东西来代替他们。
There appeared no imminent danger.
眼前似乎没有危险。
There's been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time.
很长一段时间以来，一直有关于文化文明即将死亡的警告。
Some rickshaw pullers I met were resigned to the imminent end of their livelihood and pin their hopes on being offered something in its place.
我见过一些车夫，他们已经对他们的生活即将走到穷途末路的情形逆来顺受，寄希望于能有什么东西来代替他们。
There appeared no imminent danger.
眼前似乎没有危险。
强化记忆
你可以将 "imminent" 与 "in a minute" （在一分钟之内）联系起来，用来记住这个词的拼写和含义。这个词首次在16世纪的英语文献中出现，传达了紧迫和紧张的感觉，常用于描述即将发生的重大事件。
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this method can only predict very loose timeframes.To predict more imminent events,researchers have investigated the vibrations Earth elicits before a quake.
its innovation andits promise of imminent violence.(Laughter)
As I prepared myself and my equipmentfor his imminent cardiac arrest,I began to tell the patient of his imminent demise.
We take care of ourselves a lot when affected by an illness,or in situations of imminent danger.
Mother Earth: Our end was imminentyet finality relented.
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