They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvesting, springtime, or falltime.

它们没有比在播种、收割、春天或秋天的时候更接近它的了。

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Come nearer here, my dear Miss!

往这里走近一些，我亲爱的小姐！

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He beckoned me to come nearer.

他招手叫我走过去。

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The world's major economic powers have come a step nearer patching up differences on environmental policy which prompted the humiliating collapse of key talks in November.

BBC: G8 progress on climate change

But the author of the Business Insider post, Nicholas Carlson, rightly asserts in the very post upon which this house of cards is built that while a Facebook IPO is clearly getting nearer, it is doubtful it will come as soon as rumor mill suggests.

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