形容詞 imminent:

1. close in time; about to occur
   同義詞：at hand, close at hand, impendent, impending

1. The ship was in imminent peril of being wrecked.
   那條船馬上就有失事的危險(xiǎn)。
2. Italian painter, architect, and art historian who wrote Lives of the Most Imminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors(1550), a history of Renaissance art.
   瓦薩里，喬吉奧1511－1574意大利畫家、建筑師和藝術(shù)歷史學(xué)家，他創(chuàng)作了最迫近的意大利建筑師、畫家和雕塑家的生活(1550年), 這是一部關(guān)于文藝復(fù)興藝術(shù)的歷史
3. No one has given out a warning of the imminent danger.
   沒有人對(duì)即將發(fā)生的危險(xiǎn)發(fā)出警告。
4. An announcement of further cuts in government expenditure is imminent.
   最近將發(fā)布進(jìn)一步削減政府開支的公告。

im.mi.nent

adj.（形容詞）
About to occur; impending:
緊急的：馬上要發(fā)生的；迫近的：
例句：
in imminent danger.
瀕臨危險(xiǎn)

來源：
Middle English iminent
中古英語 iminent
from Old French imminent
源自 古法語 imminent
from Latin imminôns imminent- [present participle of] imminôre [to overhang]
源自 拉丁語 imminôns imminent- [] imminôre的現(xiàn)在分詞 [逼近，威脅]
in- [in] * see in- 2
in- [在…里面] *參見 in-2
-minôre [to jut, threaten] * see men- 2
-minôre [突出，威脅] *參見 men- 2

【引伸】
im.minently
adv.（副詞）
im.minentness
n.（名詞）