She used very dense stitches that are very close together to make flowing lines of bright colors.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

I think one of the mistakes that I think you can make in a company is to build really close friendships.

我想在公司中人们可能会犯的一个错误是,建立非常亲密的友情。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

You want to use "it is important to" to emphasize or to make note of something that you hold close.

你使用“it is important to”来强调或说明你认为很重要的事情。

It's important 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"He will go through some of the decisions that we have to make, regarding how to close down Guantanamo, something that Democrats and Republicans alike agree on."

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

So what makes him feel close to home, in a way, has to make him feel close to the religion he's trying to reject.

所以，要想让一个人对亲近家，在某种意义上，先得让他亲近他试图抗拒的宗教。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

(It's more that problems make us think.) (SAYING) Koesmayadi says he is lucky to have such a close family at Rumah Cemara, and he will keep its doors open to those in need.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

That means we can also measure velocity slightly later and make the slightly later come as close to right now as we want.

那我们也可以测出稍微迟一点的速度,让那个速度接近我们前面测得的速度

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"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

If you multiply her, then you want to have as much depth to fill in behind to close that hole as you can, so that that would make your phalanx more sturdy, because you could take more casualties without breaking, that seems reasonable to me.

如果再多一些,你就需要在后面增加足够的排数,尽可能地填补缺口,这会使你的方阵固若金汤,即使伤亡惨重也不影响阵容的坚固,这在我看来是合理的

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"With this blockade against building materials, it seems hard to see how America's pledge of $10 million is going to make any difference unless, because of the close relationship between America and Israel, there's some kind of agreement that this $10 million for UNRWA schools in Gaza will go through."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Now I could probably make some of you very sick to your stomach by having you close your eyes and imagine eating a cockroach, and if I really walked through what you'd be experiencing if you did that, you'd be very upset.

如果我让你们闭眼睛想象吃蟑螂,可能会让你们感到恶心,如果我详细给你们讲解一遍,吃蟑螂的过程,你们会被恶心到的

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