"Here was an explicit, forcible, confident declaration on either side. A couple of tigers confabulating, with the prey before them, and a fight impending, would have been no finer and no shrewder than this pair; the insolent fine gentleman as great a blackguard as the other in his soiled and mud-stained clothes.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
By-and-by a chilling thought fell upon them both at the same moment of time. The men were good friends as usual, safe, by sex, from tiffs, and could do without them; and a dull day impended over the hostile fair.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
ALL this time Ina Klosking was rehearsing at the theater, quite unconscious of the impending visit. A royal personage had commanded "Il Barbiere," the part of Rosina to be restored to the original key. It was written for a contralto, but transposed by the influence of Grisi.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Fanny's shrewd hint, that the money could only be obtained from Mdlle. Klosking, had pierced Zoe through and through. Her mind grasped all that had happened, all that impended, and, wisely declining to try and account for, or reconcile, all the jarring details, she settled, with a woman's broad instinct, that, somehow or other, his going back to Homburg meant going back to Mademoiselle Klosking. Whether that lady would buy him or not, she did not know. But going back to her meant going a journey to see a rival, with consequences illimitable.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
The /Marie's/ men rushed for oars, spars, boat-hooks, anything they could lay their hands on for fenders, and held them out to shove off that grisly thing and its impending visitors. these others, terrified also, put out large beams to repel them likewise.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Just before supper Grisha entered the room. Ever since he had entered the house that day he had never ceased to sigh and weep--a portent, according to those who believed in his prophetic powers, that misfortune was impending for the household. He had now come to take leave of us, for to-morrow (so he said) he must be moving on. I nudged Woloda, and we moved towards the door.英文原著 · 《Childhood》
Unfortunately for Gabrielle, her thoughts quickly turned to her impending divorce and the empty house she'd soon return to.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Notice, no fear. No sense of impending doom.美剧 · 《Friends》
We're celebrating Fiona's impending marriage to a doctor.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Can you imagine having to live with impending death sober?美剧 · 《Shameless》