offing

英 [ˈɒfɪŋ]

美 [ˈɔːfɪŋ]

n. 岸上能见的远处海上（海面）；近岸安全距离；近岸抛锚; （喻）不远的将来

BNC.20477 / COCA.20370

习惯用语

in the offing

即将发生
likely to appear or happen soon
I hear there are more staff changes in the offing.
我听说有更多的人事变动在酝酿中。

柯林斯词典

PHRASE 即将发生；在酝酿中
If you say that something isin the offing, you mean that it is likely to happen soon.
1. A general amnesty for political prisoners may be in the offing.
  可能即将对政治犯实行大赦。

英英释义

noun

the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
1. there was a ship in the offing
the near or foreseeable future
1. there was a wedding in the offing

双语例句

Form where we lay anchor, we could see the ships in the offing.
从我们抛锚的地方可以看到近海的船。
The key question now confronting the central bank is how much of that slowdown reflects anomalous factors such as a port strike and bad weather, and whether a sharp rebound is in the offing.
美联储目前面临的一个关键问题是：经济放缓在多大程度上反映了码头罢工及恶劣天气等异常因素，美国经济是否很快就会快速反弹。
Do you know what rivers, lakes and offing in China have been polluted?
你知道中国哪些河流、湖泊和沿海都被污染了吗？
Put differently, if a ( quasi) private sector solution was in the offing this past weekend, then Mr Paulson and Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, invited the wrong financiers.
换句话说，如果说在上周末，一个（准）私营部门解决方案正在酝酿之中，那么保尔森和纽约联邦储备银行（FederalReserveBankofNewYork）行长蒂莫西•加斯内（TimothyGeithner）找错了求助对象。
Everything's topsy& turvy at the moment with this big trip in the offing.
因为这场大规模的旅行活动即将开始，此刻一切都很杂乱。
Elsewhere in Asia, a similar outcome appears to be in the offing.
在亚洲其它地区，类似结果看来也将上演。
He said that could have helped to curtail investor fears that further problems were in the offing.
他表示，那将有助于减轻投资者对于该行还会出现更多问题的担忧。
Thus, Cable Science Network, or CSN, is in the offing.
因此「有线科学电视网」（CSN）即将诞生。
US policymakers think it only prudent to imagine that something far worse than the terror attacks of 9/ 11 could be in the offing.
美国决策者认为，唯一谨慎的做法，就是想象可能发生某些比9/11恐怖袭击更坏的事件。
A general amnesty for political prisoners may be in the offing.
可能即将对政治犯实行大赦。