impending

英語

詞源

源自impend +‎ -ing。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
• 韻部：-ɛndɪŋ

形容詞

impending (無比較級)

1. 即將到來的，即將發生的

   近義詞：imminent、in the offing、proximate；亦參見Thesaurus:impending

   I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

   我現在沒時間，論文要截稿了。

   • 2021年12月7日，Jesse Hassenger，「Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up」, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     Randall and Kate aren’t satirical characters. They’re rational thinkers who unwittingly stumble into a Dr. Strangelove type of situation when they discover mankind’s impending doom, and team up with Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) to report their findings to President Orlean (Meryl Streep).

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相關詞彙

找不到分類派生自原始印歐語詞根*(s)pend-的英語詞

動詞

impending

1. impend 的現在時分詞和動名詞

   The hurricane is impending.

   風暴在步步逼近。

名詞

impending (複數 impendings)

1. 即將發生的事
   • 1934，Arabella Kenealy，The Human Gyroscope:

     Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.

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   • 1994, Steve Garvey, quoted in 2000, Nicholas Barnes, Ainin H. Garvey, The Lost Writings of Steve Garvey (page 23)

     Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]