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基本解释

She was about to speak when she was stopped by her sister.
她刚要说话，被她姐姐拦住了。
The manager was about to leave when his secretary called him back.
经理刚要走，他的秘书又把他叫了回来。
Every one feels that a disaster is imminent, as if a catastrophe is about to come.
谁都感到大事不好，似乎有什么极大的灾难即将来临。
《新英汉大辞典》

"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.
我要读的这两篇文章在某些观点上是并行的,我在讲伽达默尔的看法时想激发的就是这些观点。
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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,
她看起来就快晕过去了，因为她提的袋子实在是装了太多东西了。我是说，
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When the crowd is too bullish or bearish, the trend is about to reverse.
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