And they would move their spacecraft as close as possible to it.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

As we expected, it's less than one, and of course if we build an engine, we want it to be as high as possible, as close to one as possible.

就像预先期待的一样，效率小于一，当然如果我们建造一台热机，我们希望效率越高越好，尽可能接近一。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Try to find new and fun things to do as close to home as possible.

VOA: special.2009.06.19