From a distance, they shot at each other. Close up, they cut each other with knives.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

With dissonant intervals they tend to be frequencies that are sounding right next to each other, very close-by frequencies.

这些不协调音程的频率,听起来彼此很相似,频率很相近

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And I thought it's close enough to go, close enough to travel to other parts of Europe,

我还认为这里去欧洲其他地方旅游会很近，

世界就是我的故乡 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The soldiers could not see each other until they were very close.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

This was no Saint Francis with enough time to knock out a few canticles or to preach to the birds or do any of the other endearing things so close to Franny Glass's heart.

圣人弗朗西斯没有足够的时间去,来唱颂歌或者向鸟儿告解或者做任何,其他讨喜的事情，正合弗兰尼的心意。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Within hours, many of these other banks had to close.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

They're going to choose positions very close to each other and very close to the center.

他们会选择与对手相近的政治立场,且相当的中立

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

much like a dog on Earth. I walked close to the creature and began speaking in much the same way I would speak to a dog or other animal on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

And the answer has to do with ratios and string sizes and lengths of pipe and things like that, but generally speaking, pitches that are right next to each other--very close to each other--are dissonant.

答案和比率以及弦乐器的尺寸和管乐器的长度等有关，但是总的说来，音调是相关联的，非常近。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The other was a close friend,Ward Lamon.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Or in many kinds of gas refrigerators where you push a gas through a nozzle close to room temperature, what you find is that the gas coming out on the other side under lower pressure is cooler than the gas that went through on the other side.

或者在很多种压缩气体式冰箱中,你让气体通过接近室温的管口,你会发现从压力低的一边,出来的气体比通过,另一边的气体更冷,真正的冰箱实际上通过。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The decades-old U.S.economic embargo of the communist-run island has long-irritated other nations in the Americas, including many close U.S.allies.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

In the other context, you know in a Window and a Windows machine, you close it with the X on the top right hand corner, where do you close it in the Mac?

还有一个就是，在Windows操作系统下,当你要关闭某个东西时，需要点击,右上角的“X“,那在Mac操作系统下呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Obama will discuss, among other things, the steps are needed to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Before you go though, let's just think about it a second, so you can think about it and talk about it at home, so what we just saw was an election in which we saw two candidates, Jean and Claire Elise, who both stood very close to each other.

在你们走之前,再思考一下,这样你们可以在家里思考并讨论,我们刚刚看到的是一个选举,在其中我们看到了两个候选人,吉恩和克莱尔·伊莉斯,她们离得非常近

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Hotels and other structures built too close to the water prevent female turtles from nesting.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

In a nearly 40-minute policy speech, the president cited, among other things, his orders to end any torture of detainees and close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and the appointment of senior envoy George Mitchell to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

"But having learned lessons from the first elections that there was widespread fraud, irregularities and fraudulence, we will try our best in close coordination with Afghan leadership and Afghan institutions and other international major partners to make this election as fair and free of fraudulence,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.20