| 单词 | on, to, from the brink of |
| 释义 | > as lemmason, to, from the brink of a. figurative. The very verge of some state, time, event, or action: now esp. in the phrases on, to, from the brink of, a discovery, ruin, destruction, death, eternity, anarchy, revolution, absurdity, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > approximation > edge, verge, or brink brink?a1400 brim1549 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 2977 Scho dred þer assaute, hunger was at þe brynk. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 41 You..Surprize me to the very brinke of teares. View more context for this quotation 1671 A. Marvell Let. 6 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 138 It is impossible we should rise before the very brinke of Easter. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 191 Old men..visibly stand upon the brink of eternity. 1720 J. Swift Proposal Use Irish Manuf. 6 To save them from the brink of Ruin. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 335 I was at the very brink of Destruction. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 19 Aug. 153 [They] follow them to the brink of absurdity. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. iii. 90 Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 367 As conqueror, he brought us to the brink of feudal anarchy; as despot, he saved us from passing the brink. 1884 Graphic 158/3 The secret..on the brink of discovery. < as lemmas |
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