"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Then I want to talk about options markets-- this is getting close to the end of the course.

接下来的内容将会是期权市场,讲到这里课程也就接近尾声了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It promises something like the power of God as he brings the shattering close of the entire Christian narrative to an end at the Last Judgment and beyond.

它承诺了类似上帝权力,上帝为所有基督教徒带来了令人震惊的结局,在最后审判日及以后的日子，以叙述方式带来了结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

To reduce costs, G.M.plans to close more factories and cut more jobs by the end of two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

.. All right. I want to end by... I'm not close to ending, but the last thing I'm going to do is read aloud some student evaluations.

哦了，我想通过。。。来做结尾。,我没有接近尾声，但我想说的最后一件事,是大声念出一些学生的学科评价。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

General Motors, once the world's biggest automaker, also plans to close about 2,500 dealerships by the end of next year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

getting close drive to the end.

接近课堂的结束

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

Now we began this poem with the sense of the dreary repetitiveness in that opening phrase, "Yet once more," but here very close to the poem's end we have a vision of an end to all those fruitless exercises of repetition.

现在我们带着首句，“然而再一次的“里,沉闷的重复感开始读这首诗“,但是在诗的最后我们有一种,所有徒劳的重复行为都结束了的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选