liminal

/lim-uh-nl, lahy-muh-/US // ˈlɪm ə nl, ˈlaɪ mə- //UK // (ˈlɪmɪnəl) //

边缘,边缘的,边缘地带,边缘性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

What the scientists see in them is the faintest sign of a liminal, maybe dreamlike, consciousness.
They’d hiked directly over the top of a bear den and now dangled in the liminal space between encounter and attack.
More adventure film projects followed, and in them, Morton found his place in bike racing, a liminal space between being a WorldTour pro and a world adventurer.
They’re in this liminal, in-between place, this not-yet-to-be place.
The success of mutual aid efforts over the last year is a reminder, I think, that in a liminal time like the one we’re in, we must link arms.
This may be technically expressed by saying that the liminal intensity (Schwelle) is raised during sleep.
The supra-liminal returns into harmony with the subliminal; the individual life and the mass-life are reunited.
Meantime we are aware also of a substratum of fragmentary automatic, liminal ideas, of which we take small account.