about to

基本解釋

She was about to speak when she was stopped by her sister.
她剛要說(shuō)話，被她姐姐攔住了。
The manager was about to leave when his secretary called him back.
經(jīng)理剛要走，他的秘書(shū)又把他叫了回來(lái)。
Every one feels that a disaster is imminent, as if a catastrophe is about to come.
誰(shuí)都感到大事不好，似乎有什么極大的災(zāi)難即將來(lái)臨。
《新英漢大辭典》

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."
The two passages that I'm about to read juxtapose the viewpoints that I've been trying to evoke in describing Gadamer's position.
我要讀的這兩篇文章在某些觀點(diǎn)上是并行的,我在講伽達(dá)默爾的看法時(shí)想激發(fā)的就是這些觀點(diǎn)。
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And she looks like she's about to pass out because her bag is so filled with so many objects. I mean,
她看起來(lái)就快暈過(guò)去了，因?yàn)樗岬拇訉?shí)在是裝了太多東西了。我是說(shuō)，
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