Because I was still so close to the character in age and everything else.

因为当时我和角色的年龄等各方面都比较相近。

youdao

I know the index-card waltz of (auto)biographies, poems and novels you are dancing: those same names are still so close to the surface of my mind nearly four decades later.

我知道你的手指曾在那些目录页上来回舞动---华尔兹的传记，诗歌，小说，四十年后的今天，我仍清楚的记得这些。

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Mr Obama promised to close Guantánamo, but so did Mr Bush—and it is still in operation.

奥巴马许诺关闭关塔那摩，布什也许诺过——但它现在还开着。

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One thing that the state of Texas started working on immediately over the weekend was recognizing that, you know, we had some shelters that were too close to the coast, and we were still in hurricane season, so they did start doing some planning and making some efforts to relocate people.

NPR: Texas' Coastal Regions Brace for Hurricane Rita

Few can have been surprised by that: at 1.25%, rates are at their lowest for more than 40 years, and so close to zero that the Fed wants to hold on to what remaining room for monetary manoeuvre it still has, just in case.

ECONOMIST: Struggling to get the balance right