1·The wind was still rising, approaching a force nine gale.
风力仍在增强，接近九级。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·We would hear their caravans approaching our neighborhood, the mewling of their sheep, the "baaing" of their goats.
我们会听到他们的商队接近我们的社区的声音，绵羊咪咪，山羊咩咩。
3·Born in rude and abject poverty, he never had any education, except what he gave himself, till he was approaching manhood.
生于粗陋和赤贫之中，在接近成年之前，除了自学之外，他从未受过任何教育。
4·In the meantime, the amount of CO2 in the air is rapidly approaching the limits proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
与此同时，空气中的二氧化碳含量正迅速接近政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）提出的上限。
5·Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.
当其他出版商陷入生存危机之际，科学出版公司的运营利润率却如往常一样接近40%。