Watching something and doing something are not the same, of course, but as far as our brain is concerned they're pretty darn close.

看一件事情和做一件事情当然是不一样的，但对于我们的大脑而言，这两个行为所呈现的映像是很接近的。

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New research found that time perception changes depending on how close or far an event is from us.

一项新研究发现我们对时间快慢的感觉是根据这件事情离我们的远近来判断的。

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Unemployment: not having, or losing, a job; not having enough; losing their home — When you live close to the edge, destitution is never far away.

失业：未就业，或丢失工作；所得很少；失去家庭——在生活接近危机的时刻，距离一无所有就不远了。

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The owner is far more immortal in that sense, close to the immortality, you know.

在这种意义上主人更不朽，接近不朽，我的意思是。

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So, I want to contrast that with another concept that seemed to be opposing ideas, and that is thinking about not how far away the most probable radius is, but thinking about how close an electron can get to the nucleus if it's actually in that orbital.

我要将它和另外一个,看起来相反的概念相比较，我们不是考虑,最可能半径离原子核有多远，而是考虑如果电子在那个轨道上,能多接近原子核。

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The malaria vaccine is far from perfect, protecting close to half of its recipients from the disease, but it is nevertheless a huge step forward in combating malaria across a continent that needs all the help it can get.

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Irvine is far too valuable and close to Blair to be moved.

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Mexico, they contend, is far less likely to welcome close foreign involvement than Colombia did.

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