Imminent

(a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.

(a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

(a.) (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.

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• The gleaming blondness of his strange, imminent being put the father into a fever of fretful irritation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The more the door resisted him, the more dangerous and imminent became that bloody conspiracy against his life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As he went out into the wintry night, New York again became vast and imminent, and May Welland the loveliest woman in it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• As Jane opened her eyes to a realization of the imminent peril which threatened her, her brave young heart gave up at last its final vestige of hope. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Here is the statement which was drawn up by my father when he knew that the danger from Hudson had become imminent. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The extinction of scientific and of all other learning seemed imminent. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Nothing but the most imminent personal peril could justify our taking that second course. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• So did all the rest of Brussels--where people felt that the fight of the day before was but the prelude to the greater combat which was imminent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Just before the outbreak of the Spanish War in 1898 he felt that such a machine might be of service to his country in the event of hostilities that seemed to him imminent. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It now appeared that war was imminent, and he felt that it was his duty to brush up his tactics. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in imminent danger of being crushed in their conflict. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• On the night of the 19th he received notice from the admiral that he had been attacked by sharp-shooters and was in imminent peril. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The French Revolution was imminent, and Fulton was busy studying the conditions that were leading to it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• To humour your guilty elder son, you have exposed your innocent younger son to imminent and unnecessary danger. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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