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

VOA: special.2009.11.11

- The aftermath of--the historical close reading aftermath of-- the New Criticism does precisely that, if one sees deconstruction as a response to the New Criticism.

细读的后果-,就是新批评派所做的，如果有人认为解构主义是对新解构主义的回应。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As I say, you are very close to Portobello Road. And you could have a...

正如我说的，你离波托贝洛大街很近。然后你可以……

《诺丁山》拍摄地点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A crash of thunder sounded as a bolt of lighting struck the ground close to the basket where the rain babies slept.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

For some others it might mean being basically restricted to the home, if not all the time, then the only exception being in public, in the company of a close-male relative as chaperon.

在一些别的地方可能意味着,基本上深居简出，即使不是一天到晚，也只有外出是例外，而且必须有一个男性近亲作监护人陪同。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

This, as I say, is a different use of close reading.

这也是细读研究的另一种用处。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Teddy,as the public called him, won a close election.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

It is as close as you could find in science to a solitary invention.

就像是一个科学发明的专利享有者。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Glenn Close earned the Emmy for best actress in a drama for her role as a ruthless lawyer in the series Damages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

And what we end up forming is a molecular orbital, because as we bring these two atomic orbitals close together, the part between them, that wave function, constructively interferes such that in our molecular orbital, we actually have a lot of wave function in between the two nuclei.

最后我们得到了分子轨道，因为当我们把这两个原子轨道放在一起的时候，它们之间的部分，波函数，相干相加，所以在分子轨道里，我们在两个原子核之间有很多波函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

As a result, hundreds of popular shops have been forced to close ever the past week, with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

That is the whole triumph of calculus is to know that by looking at the position now, the position slightly later and taking the ratio and bringing later as close as possible to right now, we define a quantity that we can say is the velocity at this instant.

这就得靠微积分了,通过了解它现在的位置,和一小段时间以后的位置,计算它们的比,再让时间间隔尽可能缩短,我们就定义了一个,被我们称之为瞬时速度的物理量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Saturday's protest took a more confrontational stance as Red Shirt protesters demanded troops stationed close to the rally site in central Bangkok to stand down.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As 2009 came to a close, suicides in the U.S.Army reached record levels.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"The major parts of health-care reform that the president sought to have enacted as a candidate are now very close to happening and he thinks the commonality between the two proposals overlaps quite a bit,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

With the three parties running so close, each candidate will be hoping to distinguish himself as a clear leader, in the hope of pulling ahead and avoiding a hung parliament - where no one party wins a majority of seats.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

He qualifies exhumations as a humanitarian act that allows families to close what he calls the circle of pain and mourning in which they have been caught for a quarter of a century, and says it was unthinkable as recently as a few years ago that investigations into war crimes would have been allowed in this country.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18