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brink

/bringk/US // brɪŋk //UK // (brɪŋk) //

边缘,边缘点,边缘处,边界

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.