The states of the South were very close to leaving the Union over the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

I'd like to close with a short story of recent interaction that I had with a video over the internet.

我想用一个小故事来结束,是最近我关于网络视频的互动作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Maybe on the campus tour they kept you away from this part of the campus, but if you go over to the east close to the river there is a building called "the library."

可能在校园旅游的时候，他们故意让你们远离,校园的这个部分，但是如果你们到达东区，接近河流的地方,有一座建筑物，叫图书馆“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But if any schools do have to close, then the hope is to keep children learning for example, through phone calls or over the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She was to livewith her grandma, just over on Creekmore Avenue, which made me happy,'cause she was so close.

VOA: standard.other

And now let's suppose that your parents are going away for the weekend and they leave you with the following instructions: If it's raining tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you are to close the windows, open the door and let the cat in, phone the grocer and have him send over the following list of groceries. All right.

现在假设你们的父母这周末,离开了，给你们留下了,以下的一些指示：,如果明天早上下雨了，醒来的时候，要把窗户关好，打开门,让猫进来，打电话给杂货店并且让他,送来以下的生活用品，好的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

On Thursday,a close aide to British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth resigned in protest over the war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

It's all seen from her point of view and at a distance And then somebody is knocking at the door and breaking in, and that's Kane And then there's a close-up of Kane leaning over the bed ? Right?

都是从苏珊的角度来拍的,镜头比较远,先是有人敲门,那人闯了进来，是凯恩,然后有个对凯恩,俯在床头的特写,对么？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"He deals with a lot. He becomes frustrated in this one a little bit because he gets this close all the time and then gets told 'no' over and over again.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

t the new deal, s over , by the unemployment is down to close to zero by the middle of the War.

如果不是新政，If，it，wasn’,萧条结束，it’,失业率也降低到接近零点,在二战中的时候。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He noted the United States is in the process of moving millions of pieces of equipment from Iraq, and continues to close or turn over military bases to Iraqi government troops.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

"The decision by the administration to back away from its missile defense commitment to the Czech Republic and Poland can only demonstrate to the rest of Europe that the United States is not prepared to stand behind its friends, that the United States views resetting its relationship with Russia more important than commitments made to close friends and allies, and that the administration is willing to let Russia have veto power over the disposition of our missile defense architecture,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.24