However, when I was about to go out, I found nothing outside my door but a note: "I have thrown away your rubbish."

可是，当我要出门的时候，我发现门外什么也没有，只有一张纸条：“我已经把你的垃圾扔掉了。”

youdao

I was about to go to bed when the telephone rang.

我正待睡觉，电话响了。

《新英汉大辞典》

The next day, when I was about to go off work, the man came.

第二天下午快到下班的时候，那男人来了。

youdao

When she was about eleven years old, she decided that she wanted to go to Africa to live with and write about animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

So there was a good question in Wednesday's class about the de Broglie wavelength and if it can actually go to infinity.

在周三的课上有个关于德布罗意波波长的问题,非常好，就是它能不能到无穷大。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

This was eventually taken out, and actually just for your interest, there was no overlap between the time when cocaine was in Coca Cola and lithium was in 7-Up, so there was a few years difference between those two times, but it's amazing to think about what does go into processed foods.

锂最终被去掉了，如果你感兴趣的话，可口可乐中含有可卡因,与七喜中含锂的时代,并没有交集，它们之间还差了几年，但是想一想加工食品里,会加入什么东西还是很令人吃惊的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Bush family's nightmare began Thursday night, just as everyone was about to go to sleep.

CNN: SHARE THIS

But the geriatrics made us think that the whole thing was about to go into terminal care.

FORBES: Bernanke's Dire Straits: Money From Nothing And Debt For Free

Just as the case was about to go to court, however, the MP dropped his defamation claim.

BBC: The scandal that could bring down Australia's government