impending

英语

词源

源自impend +‎ -ing。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
• 韵部：-ɛndɪŋ

形容词

impending (无比较级)

1. 即将到来的，即将发生的

   近义词：imminent、in the offing、proximate；亦参见Thesaurus:impending

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

   我现在没时间，论文要截稿了。

   • 2021年12月7日, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, 出自 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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动词

impending

1. impend 的现在时分词和动名词

   The hurricane is impending.

   风暴在步步逼近。

名词

impending (复数 impendings)

1. 即将发生的事
   • 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 […]