be about to

基本解释

But the star may well be about to crash to earth, in his home state at least.
不过这颗星星恐怕很快就要坠落了，至少在他的家乡州是这样的。
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。”
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。

That could be about to change. The government has released a report that details how Australia's well-regulated economic system could cater to the Islamic market.
So it helps us predict, will we see this, for example, h 2, which we're going to be about to do, we'll see is stabilized because it has more bonding than anti-bonding.
这帮助我们预测，我们等会会看到，比如H2O，我们等会要讲到，我们会看到它更稳定是,因为成键比反键更多。
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I'm not at all sure there's anything more to be said about that passage, which I think lays it to rest.
我不确定这篇文章是不是,还要更多的讲解，就这样的吧。
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But the chances of a smaller nuclear exchange may have already increased, or be about to.
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