be about to
v.
将要，正打算；临到；即将；就要
同近义词辨析
be to do, be going to, be about tobe to do 侧重意志,计划,安排I'm to meet him.(含双方事先约好的意思)
be going to侧重打算,想法,
be about to表最近的将来,后面不接时间状语,
双语例句
He came just as the bus was about to leave.
汽车刚要开他就赶来了。
She is in that stage like dough beginning to set.
她正处在仿佛面团刚要发酵的年龄。
The meeting was coming to a close.
会议即将结束。
Soon school will end and vacation will be on hand.
学期快结束了，假期即将到来。
权威例句
Abba icon set to take a chanceTo be about to be
TO BE ABOUT TO BE. (cover story)
English surgeons may at last be about to become doctors: What about nurses with PhDs?
BE GOING TO AND BE ABOUT TO:JUST BECAUSE DOC BROWN WAS GOING TO TAKE US BACK TO THE FUTURE DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO DO SO
Dreams of EDI (electronic data interchange). They may be about to come true ... at last!
Warning - cigarettes may be about to become fashionable again
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Image is everthing - Modern high resolution sensing satellites could be about to offer a valuable insight into traffic congestion ar...
Goldman Sachs could be about to tighten its stranglehold on global markets
1. Be sure to read about how mozzarella is made, on page 65.
务必要阅读第65页上如何制作莫泽雷勒干酪的内容。
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2. I expect to be consulted about major issues.
我认为重大问题必须找我商量。
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3. People need to be conscientized about their rights.
需要让人们明白自己的权利。
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4. It's difficult for me to be casual about anything.
要我轻松待事有难度。
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5. I judged him to be about 50.
我估计他年纪在50左右。
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6. Police have to be realistic about violent crime.
警察对暴力犯罪不得不采取务实的态度。
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7. It's only human nature to be worried about change.
对变革有忧虑不过是人之常情。
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8. You will have to be selective about which information to include in the report.
究竟要把哪些资料收入报告，你得仔细斟酌。
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9. The government appears to be in a quandary about what to do with so many people.
该政府对如何安置这么多人显得不知所措。
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10. It's hard not to be cynical about reform.
很难对改革不持怀疑态度。
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11. I could be about to hook up with this incredibly intelligent, beautiful girl.
我可能就要与那个聪明绝顶的美女相恋。
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12. I judged him to be about forty.
我估计他四十岁左右。
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13. It was a relief to be able to talk to someone about it.
能和别人谈谈这件事，感到舒心多了。
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14. He knew roughly what was about to be said.
他大致知道该说些什么。
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15. What is to be done about this problem?
该如何处理这个问题？
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16. 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。
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17. But that could be about to change.
然而情况将会有所改变。
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18. 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。
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19. Energy taxes, already high, may be about to rise.
已经很高的能源税可能会继续上涨。
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20. One of the world's top climate modellers said Thursday we could be about to enter one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.
星期四，一位世界顶尖气候模型制造者称，我们可能即将进入“十年乃至二十年气温变凉的时期。”
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21. This week, there are signs that it might be about to.
本周，已有迹象表明这一设想会成真。
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22. In meetings, she'd be about to speak up, only to silence herself, thinking, ‘That will sound really stupid’.
在会议中，当她准备发言时，却总是制止自己，然后思考，“我的意见是不是听起来太蠢了”。
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23. 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。
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24. The Saudi way of life may be about to shift.
沙特的生活方式有可能要改变了。
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25. 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.
鉴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。
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26. Indeed, having sprinted to catch up, the challengers may be about to discover that the real race has only just begun.
事实上，通过冲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。
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27. 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。
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28. In meetings, she'd be about to speak up, only to silence herself, thinking, 'That will sound really stupid'.
会议中，有时发言仅为了打断自我怀疑，边发言边暗想‘这个提议真是愚蠢’。
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29. 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。
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30. 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。
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