1. about to

即將，行將；剛要

eg. He had to happen along just as we were about to leave.

我們剛要走，他裝出一副不知情的樣子冒了出來。

eg. Every one feels that a disaster is imminent, as if a catastrophe is about to come.

誰都感到大事不好， 似乎有什么極大的災難即將來臨。

2. In fact

事實上，實際上

eg. In fact, you have to.

實際上，你必須要這么做。

eg. She carries her age very well. She looks 50 but in fact she's more than 60 .

她不顯老，她看上去像50歲，其實已經60多了。

3. take shape

形成；成形；體現；具體化

eg. Until these new open source projects take shape, not much can be said.

在這些新的開放源代碼項目成形之前，我們需要拭目以待。

eg. More failing tests could be written for those pieces of code until a reasonable specification begins to take shape.

可以為那些代碼片段編寫更多的失敗測試，直到一個合理的規范開始成形。