The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

With dissonant intervals they tend to be frequencies that are sounding right next to each other, very close-by frequencies.

这些不协调音程的频率,听起来彼此很相似,频率很相近

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I don't believe we'll-- I'll--come close to scratching the surface of what I would enjoy doing, by the time I've died.

我不能相信-,我能推测死时,自己会对什么感兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The University of Illinois Extension advises getting bare-root roses as close to planting time as you can.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

So this isn't-- OK. And you're also close. It's going to be linear but how many times do I go through this?

每次能丢掉一半，所以这里不是-,好的，但你也很接近了,他可能是线性的，但我得遍历多少次呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The pro-slavery majority quickly voted to move to a town close to the Missouri border.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Then I want to talk about options markets-- this is getting close to the end of the course.

接下来的内容将会是期权市场,讲到这里课程也就接近尾声了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To safely capture up-close film footage of tornadoes, some project participants traveled in a seven-ton, armored tornado intercept vehicle directly into tornadoes as they formed.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

And the real killer is if we get too close we're even going to have nuclear-nuclear repulsion between the nuclei of the two atoms.

而更致命的是，如果我们靠得太近,我们甚至会有,两个原子核之间的排斥力。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some might enjoy riding bicycles through Shark Valley, while others may want to move slowly through shallow waters where insects and wildlife can be seen up-close.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

By 1852-53,Boston and New York think about this--Boston-- although we're getting close to that again Boston and New York had 50% foreign-born populations.

在1852年到1853年间,波士顿和纽约,你们听听这个数据,虽然我们现在又快接近这个比例了,那时移民占据波士顿和纽约人口的50%

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Close to three hundred thousand people have taken part since nineteen forty-six.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

It's not--It's actually close to how linguists describe normal languages, but it's very simple.

这个例子和语言学家所描述的,正常语言非常接近,但却很简单

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Men now make close to one-fifth of the complaints.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

is very close to its surface a kind of anal-phase parable.

和那种肛门期的寓言很像。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

And the answer has to do with ratios and string sizes and lengths of pipe and things like that, but generally speaking, pitches that are right next to each other--very close to each other--are dissonant.

答案和比率以及弦乐器的尺寸和管乐器的长度等有关，但是总的说来，音调是相关联的，非常近。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The Environmental Protection Agency, is keeping a close watch on threats to the delicate eco-system along the coastline.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

I mean probably those of you-- I mean I can see you people squirming right now when I--just at the mention of that-- so I'm not going to go through the process of having you close your eyes and imagine eating the cockroach.

我看到现在在座的有些同学,已经开始觉得恶心了,我只是提了一下,我又没真让你闭上眼睛,去想象吃蟑螂

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Smith-Valade added they underestimated the degree to which people would want to get close to the Olympic cauldron.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

In William James, maybe the case-- because the elevator-- it does take two hours to get there for the door to close.

在William，James大厅也许会遇到这种事-,因为那部电梯-,运作得太慢。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

North Korea is warning the United States not to send surveillance planes too close to the site of a planned long-range rocket launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Now this class is too big for us to have some close, intimate conversation between the 150-180, however many students there are here.

这个班级太大了以致我们不能得到结论，在150-180页之间展开深入讨论，然而学生太多了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For serious action fans, this convention is as close as some will get to meeting their real-life super heroes - or just acting like one.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

you could characterize them in terms of how they're gated, -- and basically how they open or close -- that's one way to talk about different types.

你可以通过闸门的类型来描述它们，这基本上也就是看它们是如何打开或关闭的-,这是一种讨论不同类型的方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Obama administration says there are no plans to close the 3,000 kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

That's because, well, when you buy your first house you might be twenty-five, so thirty years brings you to age fifty-five; that's close enough to retirement.

这是因为,你可能在25岁时买第一套房子,当还清30年的贷款时你已经55岁了,都快退休了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Secretary Gates is a co-chair of the task force President Obama formed to decide how to close the facility and what to do with the detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

He stayed up all night and counted every leaf on the tree and it came very close to what Rituparna said, so he--the next morning-- believed Rituparna.

他彻夜未眠,数了树上的每一片叶子,发现结果和睿都巴若那所言相差无几,所以他在...第二天早晨...,相信了睿都巴若那

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose State of Law alliance came a very close second to former Prime Minister Iyad Alawi's Iraqiya, is leading the caretaker government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04