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If an event or situation is impending, it is going to happen very soon. People reach for this word most when they do not like what is coming: an impending storm, an impending war, an impending deadline. You can almost feel something hanging in the air, about to drop.
If an event or situation is impending如果一件事或一個情況是 impending 的 it is going to happen very soon就代表它很快就要發生了 People reach for this word most人們最常用這個字 when they do not like what is coming當他們不喜歡即將發生的事時 an impending storm, an impending war, an impending deadline像是即將來臨的暴風雨、即將爆發的戰爭、迫近的截止日 You can almost feel something hanging in the air你幾乎能感覺到有什麼懸在空中 about to drop快要掉下來似的
Though actually, it does not have to be a disaster. Writers also say an impending visit or an impending election, with no crash in sight — the unhappy use is just the one you will meet first. It is a news-and-writing word more than a talking word; friends would say it is coming or it is about to happen.
Though actually不過其實 it does not have to be a disaster不一定要是災難 Writers also say作者也會說 an impending visit or an impending election即將到來的訪問或即將舉行的選舉 with no crash in sight完全沒有任何災難的意味 the unhappy use is just the one you will meet first只是你最先遇到的用法剛好是負面的那種 It is a news-and-writing word more than a talking word它比較是新聞和書面用字，不是口語 friends would say朋友聊天會說 it is coming or it is about to happen它快來了或它快要發生了
The old verb impend is rare now. Almost nobody says the storm impends. We kept the -ing form and use it like an adjective before a noun.
The old verb impend舊動詞 impend is rare now現在很少見了 Almost nobody says幾乎沒有人會說 the storm impends暴風雨 impends We kept the -ing form我們保留了 -ing 這個形式 and use it like an adjective before a noun把它當形容詞放在名詞前面用
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impendingadj/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
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Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
- I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.
- "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
impendingnoun/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/
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Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.
- Speed of locomotion and staying power in horse and others; the sense of smell in dog and in most other creatures (a far subtler and more analytical faculty than is man's mere perception of odour). Even an uncanny supra-natural sense of natural impendings, catastrophe, earthquake and flood, lacking in man, is found in simpler creatures.
- Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。