brink 的定义
- the edge or margin of a steep place or of land bordering water.
- any extreme edge; verge.
- a crucial or critical point, especially of a situation or state beyond which success or catastrophe occurs: We were on the brink of war.
brink 近义词
edge of an object or area
更多brink例句
- It will eat away at prosperity, dealing repeated economic blows to coastal, rural and Southern regions, which could in turn push entire communities to the brink of collapse.
- After health systems were pushed to the brink, strict lockdowns brought the outbreak under control.
- In San Leandro, California, Noodles Pho Me is one of very few Bay Area restaurants serving Lao-style pho, and was on the brink of closure earlier this month when its owners negotiated a deal with the landlord.
- A study published in the June 16 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, for example, estimates that 515 land-dwelling vertebrate species alone are on the brink of extinction.
- Between advertisers continuing to cut spending, economies on the brink of recessions, the end of emergency employment benefits, and a pandemic that’s surging in some markets, agency holding group CEOs are still in the grip of a serious crisis.
- She was sexually and verbally abused, leading her to the brink of suicide.
- Emergent procedures provide their benefit right away and have the awesome potential to rescue a patient from the brink of death.
- It is conceivable, if highly unlikely, that most Palestinians will try to pull back from the brink.
- Meanwhile, their Missouri hometown appears to be on the brink of chaos.
- But things were once a lot closer to the brink than most people knew.
- I swung down from my horse on the brink of the creek, cinched the saddle afresh, and rolled a cigarette.
- It was a hippopotamus which had been standing on the river-brink within six yards of the muzzle of his gun.
- He sees no longer the brink of the abyss beside which the path of progress picks its painful way.
- And presently we galloped across a mile or two of level grassland and pulled up on the very brink of Sage Creek canyon.
- On the opposite side of the stream, set back about thirty paces from the brink, stood a granite boulder.