1UNCERTAINvery close to not being acceptable 两可之间的
In borderline cases, the student’s coursework is considered, as well as exam grades.
在难以决定的情况下,学生的作业和考试成绩都要考虑进去。
The referee’s decision was borderline.
裁判的判罚颇具争议。
2[usually before noun] having qualities of both one situation, state etc and another more extreme situation or state 临界的
a borderline schizophrenic (=someone who has some signs of being mentally ill)
临界精神分裂症患者
Examples from the Corpus
borderline• Lowerrates can help some borderlineborrowersqualify for loans.• A borderline case, and then deindustrialization had pushed him over the edge.• In borderline cases we look at a student's class work to decide the finalexam result.• It was a borderlinedecision whether to send him to prison or not.• Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.• Caitlin's grades are borderline. She'll have to work harder.• Johnson's argumentsrange from ridiculous to borderlineslander.• a borderline student
1[singular]FINISH/COME TO AN END the point at which one quality, situation, emotion etc ends and another begins 介于两者之间的不明朗状态;暧昧状况,中间地带
She slipped over the borderline into sleep.
她先是半睡半醒,后来慢慢睡着了。
on the borderline
I was on the borderline between a first- and a second-class degree.
我的成绩处在一级和二级荣誉学位的交界地带。
2.[countableC]SG a border between two countries 分界线,边界,国境线
Examples from the Corpus
borderline• As far as he was concerned, there was no longer a borderline.• The communalborderline between Chouilly and Cramant slices through the middle of these slopes, the higher vines belonging to Chouilly.• For more demandingpurposes still more is required, and it is often hard to decide just where to fix the borderline.• Gilsland, near Lanercost Abbey, was only fifteen miles from the borderline at Kirkandrews.• One could answer this by suggesting that here we are on the borderline between social and physiological laws.• the borderline between affection and love
on the borderline• The result is an expensivemachine: fine for the military, but always on the borderline of profitability.• One could answer this by suggesting that here we are on the borderline between social and physiological laws.• Between 1660 and 1669 his diaryillustrates the insecurities of the Restoration for a man on the borderline of Nonconformity.• We're on the borderline of having to ration water.• It was no accident that a good many towns were sitedon the borderline between arablefarming and pastoralregions.• His was a lifetime spent on the borderline between chutzpah and hubris.• This includes students who are moderated from pass to fail as well as those on the borderline between two classes of degree.