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border on sthphrasal verb to come very close to being sth, especially an extreme or unpleasant quality or emotion（尤指极端或不愉快的特征或情绪）近乎，濒于◆his devotion bordered on the obsessive.他专注到近乎痴迷的程度。◆she felt an anxiety bordering on hysteria.她感觉到一种近乎歇斯底里的焦虑。 border on sth 1. to be almost the same as sth 近乎: ◇the dictator's ideas bordered on madness. 这独裁者的想法近乎疯狂。 2. to be next to sth 毗邻: ◇our garden borders on the railway line. 我家的花园挨着铁路。 border on sthphr v [t]to be very nearly a particular kind of behaviour, attitude, feeling etc 近似，接近:◇her behaviour often borders on insanity. 她的行为近乎疯狂。 |