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即将;刚要;正打算
the timing is even worse as bristol will be about to give birth when voters go to the polling station, come november.
而更糟的是,11月当投票即将开始时,bristol也即将临产。
all of this has observers wondering whether inflation might be about to take off again, as it did in early 2008.
所有的这些使得观察家们怀疑是否又将会发生像2008年初一样的通货膨胀。
the italian press has speculated for months that clooney might be about to propose marriage to her.
意大利媒体近几个月来一直在猜测,克鲁尼可能马上将向她求婚。
you can imagine that moment: realising that your life might be about to end and you aren「t ready.
你可以想象那一刻:意识到自己的人生可能行将结束,而你还没準备好迎接死亡。
harry potter author jk rowling may be about to announce an online game based on her wizard character.
哈利波特的作者jk罗琳可能将发布一个以她的魔法人物为依托的在线游戏。
to thrive, nigerians need strong medicine. they may at last be about to get it
为了繁荣,尼日利亚需要一剂猛药。可能快要得到了
that might be about to change, now that us researchers have discovered a fresh approach to computer security that takes real-life bugs as its inspiration.
鑒于美国研究人员受来自现实生活中昆虫的灵感激发,发现了令计算机安全的一种新方法,这种反应可能会发生变化。
it believes the same pattern could be about to repeat itself and points to numerous incidents in recent years.
报告认为相同形式的斗争将会自我重复,并且指出最近几年将有大量事件涌现。
but that could be about to change.
然而情况将会有所改变。
energy taxes, already high, may be about to rise.
已经很高的能源税可能会继续上涨。
if either of the current debt negotiations fails, we could be about to replay 1931, the global banking collapse that made the great depression great.
如果当前的任何一个债务谈判失败,我们将会重复1931的错误,全球的银行业垮台使「大萧条」变得更大。
but the old-fashioned image of advent tourism may be about to change.
老式圣诞节旅游的景象有可能即将要改变。
but for the thousands of small english language schools, unable to compete with the new breed of slicker professionals, times may be about to get significantly tougher.
但是对于成千上万无法与伶俐的新型专业机构匹敌的小型英语语言学校而言,它们的日子会越来越难过。
in meetings, she」d be about to speak up, only to silence herself, thinking, ‘that will sound really stupid’.
在会议中,当她準备发言时,却总是制止自己,然后思考,「我的意见是不是听起来太蠢了」。
they were keen to see rick perry, the governor of texas, who seems to be about to announce that he will run for president.
他们热切想看到德克萨斯州州长里克?佩里(rickperry),他好像即将宣布参与总统竞选。
we may or may not be about to face our own lost decade, but the sheer misery millions of americans will face in the near future probably exceeds anything that happened in japan during the 90s.
我们或许在接近我们「失败的十年」,或许没有,但是数百万美国人即将面对的痛苦也许超过了日本90年代发生的任何事情。
that picture may be about to change, however.
但是,这一切现在可能要改变了。
indeed, having sprinted to catch up, the challengers may be about to discover that the real race has only just begun.
事实上,通过沖刺式的迎头赶上之后,挑战者们可能会发现,真正的比赛才刚刚开始。
but that could be about to change as a lighter, more flexible and less power-hungry alternative starts to muscle in, quite literally, on the motor’s patch.
不过,随着一种更轻便灵巧、耗电量更小的替代品开始插足电动机的领地,毫不夸张地说,这种情况即将改变。
the saudi way of life may be about to shift.
沙特的生活方式有可能要改变了。
harry potter and his wizarding chums may be about to make a digital publishing leap.
哈利波特和他的巫师伙伴们或许将掀起一场数字出版波澜。
the french president, though, may be about to secure a prize that france has long wanted and germany has long resisted: european 「economic government」.
然而,法国总统可能将要设法获得其长期渴望的荣誉,同时也是德国一直以来抵制的,那就是:法国是欧洲的「经济政府」。
it is therefore no small matter that this glory may be about to end.
因为一件不小的荒唐事,这一切的荣耀也许将走向它的尽头。
but the star may well be about to crash to earth, in his home state at least.
不过这颗星星恐怕很快就要坠落了,至少在他的家乡州是这样的。
these messages allow the database to record that a file is believed to be about to be deleted, so creation messages for it don't generate errors.
这些消息允许数据库记录被认为即将删除的文件,因此该文件的创建消息不会产生错误。
blue-chip companies have yet to take the plunge and still spend only a tiny fraction of their budgets on internet advertising, but that could be about to change.
虽然杰出的企业至今尚未鼓足勇气进行改变,它们花在网络广告上的预算仍然微乎其微,不过这种状况有可能要发生改变。
although the world may not be about to return to the excesses of the 1970s, the goldilocks era is tapering off: the trade-off between growth and inflation has deteriorated.
尽管世界经济状况不至于像1970年代那么惨,但离「金发姑娘」【注】的时代已渐行渐远:增长和通胀之间的平衡已经被不复存在。
the cacophonous capillaries of india’s infrastructure may be about to get a lot more clogged.
印度那如毛细血管般庞杂破旧的交通基础设施即将经受更严重的拥堵。