But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected, loved, feared and prepared for made them dejected.

但是不知怎地，当一件很久以来就期待、热爱、担心和为精心准备的事情就要来时，他们的情绪反倒低落起来。

The sense of the Coming's imminence was like an electric tension in the air.

他即将降有如空中积蓄的雷电。

" I drink to the imminence of His Coming, " said Morgana Rothschild, whose turn it happened to be to initiate the circular rite.

“我为他即将到。”尔根娜·罗斯柴尔德说。传仪式正好轮到她启动。

Much that is unique in old age in fact derives from the reality of aging and the imminence of death .

事实上，老年独特处多是由于衰老这一现实及死亡逼近。

Then she heard an ominous sound in the driveway, outside the window, a sound that brought home to her even more sharply the imminence of Ashley's departure.

接着她听见窗外车道上传来不祥的声响，这使她更加紧张地觉到到与艾希礼的分别已迫在眉睫。

" I drink to the imminence of His Coming, " he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, so far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.

“我为他的即将到。”伯纳重复着她的话，打心眼里努力想到他即将到来，但那一道眉毛仍然萦绕不去，对伯纳来说，他的到还远得可怕。