Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

They might be,for example,in an accident, and come close to being killed,but walk away without a scratch.

比如说在事故中幸存，差点送命，但结果毫发无伤。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There's an extraordinary literature, the close concurrent, the close competition for that, the richest literature would be the Spanish Civil War with Orwell, and Borkenau and Brennan.

还有一类好的文学作品,能和一战类一拼高下的,争夺最丰富文学奖,应该就是西班牙内战,有奥威尔,博克南和布伦南

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"In the U.S.,for instance, some researchers have projected that there may be a shortage of close to a million nurses by two thousand twenty."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Not identical,item for item, but close enough to be fairly similar to me.

不需要完全一样，但是接近到至少和我相似。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You will find very rare of the case of a Greek city, which is founded away from the sea; they always wanted to be close to the sea for varieties of reasons.

你会发现希腊城市中很少见的现象,那就是它们远离大海,诸多的原因致使希腊人,愿意把城市建设在离海近的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Because they're trying to, they're competing for voters who happen to be close, or running out of gas at those moments, and by crowding together they avoid being out competed by each other in terms of position.

因为他们试图,他们都为了拉拢附近客源或是那些,刚刚耗完汽油的顾客而相互竞争,它们通过挤在一起,避免自己因为选址的问题而被淘汰出局

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选