Then she heard an ominous sound in the driveway, outside the window, a sound that brought home to her even more sharply the imminence of Ashley's departure.

接着她听见窗外车道上传来不祥声响，这使她更加紧张地觉到到与艾希礼已迫在眉睫。

" I drink to the imminence of His Coming, " said Morgana Rothschild, whose turn it happened to be to initiate the circular rite.

“我为他即将到临干杯。”摩尔根娜·罗斯柴尔德说。传杯仪式正好轮到她启动。

But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected, loved, feared and prepared for made them dejected.

但是不知怎地，当一件很久以来就期待、热爱、担心和为之精心准备事情就要来临时，他们情绪反倒低落起来。

The sense of the Coming's imminence was like an electric tension in the air.

他即将降临之有如空中积蓄雷电。

" I drink to the imminence of His Coming, " he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, so far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.

“我为他即将到临干杯。”伯纳重复着她话，打心眼里努力想到他即将到来，但那一道眉毛仍然萦绕不去，对伯纳来说，他到临还远得可怕。

And imminence means it has to be happening right now or just about to happen.

而紧迫性意味着必须是正在发生或即将发生。

Already Alice could read the begrimed gilt letters of the sign; and although they had spelled destiny never with a more painful imminence than just then, an old habit of dramatizing herself still prevailed with her.

爱丽丝已经可以读懂标志上那些被鎏金字母了。尽管他们从未像那时那样痛苦地注定命运，但一种将自己戏剧化旧习惯仍然在她身上占了上风。

And and you realize that they had asked all these massive, transcendent, existential questions because the imminence of their own death And she was on a treadmill talking about redoing the kitchen.

你意识到他们问了所有这些宏大、超越、存在主义问题，仅仅是因为他们自己迫近。 而她却在跑步机上谈论重新装修厨房事情。

This makes the problem of Western Europe and the United States far more serious than it was before and perhaps makes the imminence of war greater.

——这使得西欧和美国问题比以前更加严重，或许也使得战争迫在眉睫。

By connecting us with our emotional histories, nostalgia can help us to stave off sadness, loneliness, existential threat and even the imminence of death and the approaching horizon of our lives as we age.

通过将我们与我们情历史联系起来， 怀旧可以帮助我们避免悲伤、孤独、生存威胁， 甚至随着年龄增长， 迫近和生命即将到来地平线。

While the government itself admitted the progress of the rebellion, the officers in Macondo had confidential reports of the imminence of a negotiated peace.

虽然政府本身承认叛乱进展，但马孔多军官们收到了关于谈判和平迫在眉睫机密报告。

This operation lasted until January, 1917, when the imminence of war with Germany led to the withdrawal of the American soldiers.

这一行动一直持续到 1917 年 1 月，当时与德国战争迫在眉睫导致美国士兵撤离。

He feels pain because it was transmitted to him through the imminence of his grandfather, a person he knew and loved.

他到痛苦，因为这份痛苦是通过他深知且挚爱祖父临近传递给他。

Legally, the slow movement of drugs over time based on a consumer base is not a basis for that imminence.

从法律上讲，基于消费群体逐渐扩散毒品传播，并不能构成紧迫性依据。

In this, I began to feel the imminence of the end of the world, as if it were already there.

在这一点上，我开始受到世界末日迫在眉睫，仿佛它已经在那里。

But even if people are today not so worried about the imminence of an atomic or nuclear war, there is still what may be called a practical necessity to read this theoretical book, or one like it.

但即使今天人们不再那么担心原子战争或核战争迫在眉睫，阅读这本理论书或类似书仍然有所谓实际必要性。

Much that is unique in old age in fact derives from the reality of aging and the imminence of death .

事实上，老年独特之处多是由于衰老这一现实及之逼近。

At lunchtime he was chatting with Arcadio, who was alreadya huge adolescent, and he found him more and more excited over the imminence of war.

午餐时间，他正在和阿卡迪奥聊天，阿卡迪奥已经是一个巨大青少年，他发现他对战争迫在眉睫越来越兴奋。