发音： [ˈɪmɪnənt]
例句：
- Something that is imminent is ready to happen or take place soon, often used to describe something bad or dangerous is approaching.
- The move brought the first round of NATO sanctions against Russia and growing concern that an invasion of Ukraine was imminent.
- Not everyone believes a recession is imminent this time, in part because there are areas of the economy that are doing better than in previous bear market moments.
- The systems use cameras, radar and other sensors to see when a crash is imminent.
- If there had been any paleontologists living 67 million years ago, they could not have predicted the dinosaurs’ imminent demise, because asteroids belong to a field of science otherwise remote from dinosaur biology.
解释：
- Imminent这个单词为形容词，其表示“ready to take place, or happen，especially used to describe something bad is about to occur”这一含义，即“即将发生的/临近的(尤其是一些不好的事情）”，与impending/looming/threatening这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The system is in imminent danger of collapse. （这个系统面临即将崩溃的危险。）
—News - Job growth slowed, but not by so much that it suggested a recession was imminent.（工作增长很慢，但这并不意味着萧条即将会发生。）
—News - A year later a secret conference of scientists is convened to debate the dimming of the sun, which many now believe presents an imminent threat to life on Earth.（一年后，一个科学家的秘密会议召开，讨论太阳变暗的问题，许多人现在认为太阳对地球上的生命构成了迫在眉睫的威胁。）
—Science - To some, the government’s crackdown did not seem imminent so they did not take the precautions necessary to lessen its effect.（对一些人来说，政府的镇压似乎并非迫在眉睫，因此他们没有采取必要的预防措施来减轻其影响。）
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