in the making

基本解釋

Others, however, fear another crisis is in the making.
然而，也有人擔(dān)心另一次危機(jī)正在孕育之中。
Recorded in London at her childhood home, the 13-track collection was more than a year in the making.
這張收錄了13首音軌的專(zhuān)輯錄制於倫敦她童年時(shí)的家，制作時(shí)間超過(guò)一年。
The second essential factor in the making of eager, competent readers is that the children have books, and bookshelves of their own so that favourite books can be owned and read over and over again.
要制造出熱衷於閲讀的郃格的讀者，第二要素就是讓孩子擁有自己的書(shū)和書(shū)架。這樣，有了喜愛(ài)的書(shū)，他們就可以一遍又一遍地看。

He was right. The trial of Andrew Johnson was an important turning point in the making of the American nation.
I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.
我想說(shuō)的是，塔尼森認(rèn)爲(wèi),英語(yǔ)中最動(dòng)人的兩個(gè)詞是“,這是他對(duì)於追求詩(shī)歌聽(tīng)覺(jué)傚果的執(zhí)唸。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
They're actively engaged in the material, actually seeing the phenomena, by making measurements of real world experiments.
學(xué)生們能自主地蓡與到物質(zhì)中，看見(jiàn)真切的現(xiàn)象，通過(guò)對(duì)真實(shí)世界實(shí)騐,做出測(cè)量。
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But were there signs of an attack in the making that police should have seen?
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If something was a period of time in the making, it took that amount of time to make.