Some enterprising couples have invited more than close friends and relatives to their weddings -- they've also welcomed corporate sponsors.

一些有事业心的伴侣结婚时不仅邀请亲朋好友，还邀请赞助商。 渖。

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NOTE: when I said "random" in this post, I naturally mean the pseudorandom number generators computers use, which isn't really random, but was more than close enough for our project.

注意：本文中的“随机”是指计算机使用的伪随机数，而非真随机，但从项目中来看已经不错了。

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It will close more than 200 stores nationwide resulting in the layoffs of an estimated 2,000 employees.

在全国范围内将关闭二百多家商店，造成约两千人失业。

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

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I'm more likely to kill you if you're very far away than if you're close.

如果你离我很远，我杀你的可能性,会比你离我近时更高。

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Here's one, "It is clear that the emergence of the hoplite was only the beginning of a lengthy process which certainly lasted more than a century, and may have lasted more than two centuries, leading to the creation of a close ordered hoplites only phalanx.

他说道,"很显然重装步兵的出现,仅仅是漫长战争史的开端,持续了多达一个世纪,甚至可能超过两个世纪,漫长的战争造就了列阵严整的重步兵方阵

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More than 600 close contacts of the confirmed cases are being closely monitored.

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Chris Arendt, a former guard at Guantanamo Bay, says the Obama administration must rethink and reform the way it detains and prosecutes future terror suspects -- and do more than just close Guantanamo.

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In one survey of almost 3, 000 nurses diagnosed with breast cancer, researchers discovered that women who had fewer than 10 close friends were four times more likely to die of the disease than women with 10 or more close friends.

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