Russian domestic television gave little hint that war might be in the offing.

俄罗斯国内电视台几乎没有表争可能即将爆发的迹象。

Big cuts to public spending are also in the offing.

即将会大幅削减公共支。

And was even served when no beef was in the offing.

甚至在没有牛肉供应的时候也会提供。

A mental illness diagnosis only makes him look more capable of offing his mother.

精神问题只会让他看起来更像给母亲下毒的凶手。

I mean, there's no opening in the offing.

我是说 目测现在没有空缺。

Minister, I thought you'd like early warning that there is a reshuffle in the offing.

大臣，我觉得该尽早提醒您马上要政府改组了。

After a period in which progress was limited to fanciful sketches and small-scale trials, shipowners are now starting to place orders to retrofit existing cargo ships and build wind-assisted vessels. A new age of sail may be in the offing.

在经历了一段仅限于草图构想和小规模试验的时期后，船东现在开始下订单改造现有船并建造风力辅助船舶。航海的新时代可能即将到来。

Mr Assad's tightening grip over the most populous cities along a north-south axis in Syria's west has dimmed the prospects, always faint, of peace talks that were said to be in the offing in Geneva.

叙利亚西部阿萨德控制下的人口最多的几个城市呈南北一线状；而正是他的严格控制使得即将在日内瓦召开的，原本就扑朔迷离的和平谈话的前景越加不明朗。

North Carolina officials believe tens of thousands of homes in the state have been damaged so far, with days of problems still in the offing.

北卡的官员相信，到目前为止，该州遭到破坏的房屋数以万计，且接下来还有更多的问题等着他们。

I let him talk. It was good to see his eyes drift into the offing. Perhaps he too wanted to avoid the face-to-face.

我让他继续说。看着他的目光远的海面，真好啊。或许他也想避免面对面相视。

Did he not remember Billowy, or was he too modest, too cautious, to show he knew exactly what I was referring to? He resumed staring into the offing.

他不记得大波浪衬衫了吗？或者他太谦虚、太谨慎，以致不想表现他完全知道我在说什么？他再度凝视远处的海面。

Sweeter-tasting fish meant rivers in the offing; groups of birds, homing in the evening, showed him where land lay.

如果鱼的味道比平常甜点，就意味着淡水河离这里不远，如果傍晚有鸟群回家，就指示陆地的方向。

Now such moves may be in the offing.

现在这样的举措可能即将来临。

The big question is how much new capacity is in the offing as well?

更大的问题是，有多少新的运力即将上线？

And you've suggested that both things might or might not be in the offing there.

你也提到，这两件事可能正在酝酿中，也可能并非如此。

Particularly if you were offing rich establishment pigs in the process.

尤其是在你除掉那些富有的权贵猪的时候。

She's in a nursing home and someone has started offing the other residents.

她住在养老院，有人开始杀害其他居民。

This was his world now—and that last strong irony he craved lay in the offing.

现在这是他的世界——他渴望的最后一次强烈讽刺即将来临。

It sounds like a big relationship could be in the offing.

听起来可能会有一段重要的关系即将展开。

I took them to the judge in Gainesville to be married, and when Adrenna admitted that she was " divo'ced, " the judge did not question it, though I knew that three more or less legal husbands were still in the offing.

我把他们带到盖恩斯维尔的法官那里结婚， 当阿德琳娜承认她“离婚” 时，法官没有质疑， 尽管我知道三个或多或少的合法丈夫还在酝酿之中。