border on

英 [ˈbɔːdə(r) ɒn]

美 [ˈbɔːrdər ɑːn]

和…毗邻; 与…接壤; 接近; 近似

柯林斯词典

• See also:He has never exhibited the self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, of his predecessor...The atmosphere borders on the surreal.border

英英释义

verb

• come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
  1. This borders on discrimination!
  2. His playing approaches that of Horowitz
  Synonym:approach

双语例句

• When he says that bond purchases border on an illegal act of debt monetising, he is expressing a consensus view among German economists, lawyers and politicians.
  当他表示购买债券几乎等同于债务货币化的非法行为时，他所表达的是德国经济学家、律师和政界人士的共同看法。
• Such designs can border on camp or tacky, in the wrong hands.
  如果搭配不当，这种设计看上去像是去露营或是捡破烂的。
• Tundra is the name given to the low, marshy plains of Europe, Siberia, and North America that border on the Arctic Ocean.
  欧洲、西伯利亚和北美洲接近北冰洋的低洼沼泽平原名之为冻土带。
• While his behavior can border on antisocial, House is a maverick physician whose unconventional thinking and flawless instincts have afforded him a great deal of respect.
  虽然豪斯几乎是个愤世嫉俗的反社会论者，他非传统的思维方式和精准无瑕的职业直觉令他赢得了病人和同僚的一致尊敬。
• Security forces patrolling the long stretch of desert south of the Libyan border on Sunday spotted the convoy on its way to the northern town of Agadez.
  在利比亚南部边境狭长的沙漠地带巡逻的安全部队周日发现车队正前往尼日尔北部的阿加德兹。
• The leaders of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army failed to appear at peace talks on the Sudan-Uganda border, Congo border on Sunday.
  乌干达起义军的领导未能在周日在苏丹-乌干达、果边界发票和平宣言。
• Its northern suburbs adjoin Staffordshire, and its southern and southwestern suburbs border on Hereford and Worcester.
  它的北部郊区毗邻斯塔福德郡。南部和西南部的郊区与赫里福德伍斯特郡接壤。
• Leamas crosses Danish border on his own passport.
  利马斯用自己的护照进入丹麦。
• Ten years ago, World Bank officials would make arcane distinctions between concepts such as "adaptive corruption" and "dysfunctional corruption" that to their audience seemed to border on rationalisation.
  10年前，世界银行（worldbank）的官员还会解释诸如“适应性腐败”和“职能缺失性腐败”等概念之间的晦涩区别，他们的解释在听者耳朵里似乎还有点道理。
• There seems to be at least built in to Aristotle's account of politics a certain flexibility a certain latitude of discretion that in some passages even seems to border on a kind of relativism.
  那看似建入于，亚里士多德对政治的描述，某种弹性，某种恣意的判断力，在有些段落甚至，看起来近似一种相对论。