"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

because when you're up on that point, you see anything that's in the water, anything close to the surface and,

因为当你站在那里的高处，你能看到贴近水面的一切，而且，

圣莫尼卡之景点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they've got.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

On a line for sometime... and then it was close to the Soviet Union That's really suspicious to Washington.

有一段时间是同一战线的。,当时和苏联关系紧密,使得美国心生疑虑。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But close to five hundred million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

So that at least,they claimed for some that through these texts that they wanted apostolic authorship or close to apostolic authorship.

所以至少有些人认为,这些书需要是使徒所著,或者亲近使徒的人所著。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He believed that much of what was being said and done in Ohio was close to the crime of treason.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

So what makes him feel close to home, in a way, has to make him feel close to the religion he's trying to reject.

所以，要想让一个人对亲近家，在某种意义上，先得让他亲近他试图抗拒的宗教。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In two thousand eight they had close to two million students -- nearly three times more than in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

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

One sports writer later described Clemente's throwing, running and hitting during the World Series as close to the level of perfection.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

They thought, for example, if you could do something with one element, if you looked at an element very close to it, it would be similar enough that you could maybe replace it with that.

他们认为，比如，用一种元素可以做的，用它邻近的元素，代替它的位置,也应该能做到。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

In our affections, in our caring, who we like, who we feel close to, whose pain bothers us, we are not indiscriminate.

我们对他人的喜爱，对他人的关心，我们喜欢谁，与谁亲近，在乎谁的痛苦，并非一视同仁的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

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

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wrote in the Washington Post that the deep financial crisis is close to the end.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The pressure points come when the issues are so close to the bone that a variety of people don't feel that they had the luxury to do that, that their interests, their commitments are threatened.

有时也有一些压力,这时话题通常比较敏感，许多人,觉得言论自由成为了一种奢侈品，他们的兴趣和信仰都受到了威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This year, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say resistance is close to one hundred percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

It could be normal, everything, that would be a Gaussian, where if you recall there was a mean, and a standard deviation, and most values were going to be close to the mean.

可能是正态分布，也就是高斯分布，只要有平均值和标准偏差值，你就可以进行调用，大部分的值都是集中在平均值附近的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They had plenty of food and a good roof over their heads and the river ran close to their door.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

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

In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

You're going to find out, you know, one of these years when you start teaching that when you get really close to a blackboard, you just cannot think.

过几年以后,你们渐渐就会发现,当你开始教课,当你离黑板真的很近的时候,你就没法思考了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

To be considered for the study, children were supposed to be close to cigarette smoke at least 5 times a day.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Sudiptha had suggested earlier on, you want to be close to 5.

苏蒂帕之前提到过,我们应该选更靠近5的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If someone offers me an amount that is close to my selling price, I might say the amount is in the ballpark.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

They were physically close to it and psychologically close to it.

身体上和心理上都是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Okay. So that's Richard Strauss's approach to death, not particularly relevant to you young people but for oldergentlemen such as Professor Kagan and myself we're getting close to that. Right, Don?

理查·施特劳斯的死亡与净化讲的是死亡,对你们年轻人可能有些距离,但对于我和卡根教授这些老绅士来说,我们离死亡越来越近,对吧,先生

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选