looming

There was a crisis looming.

危机迫在眉睫。

As lives are affected by any number of looming challenges—climate crisis, automation in the workplace—humans are going to need creative thinking more than ever.

随着生活受到各种迫在眉睫的挑战影响，即气候危机和工作场所自动化的影响，人类比以往任何时候都需要创造性思维。

He found that strongty-lateralised individuals were able to feed twice as fast as wealdy-lateralised ones when there was a threat of a predator looming above them.

他发现，当掠食者的威胁逼近时，强侧化个体的进食速度是弱侧化个体的两倍。

There´s trouble looming on the horizon.

可能快要出事了。

The government is trying to quell fears of a looming oil crisis.

该政府正努力消除日益临近的石油危机而带来的恐惧。