You hold your cards close to you so no one can see what you have.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

We have no evidence, and I mentioned this before, that there was a particularly close relation between these two young men.

我之前提到过，我们没有证据,去证明这两个年轻人之前有着如何亲密的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

and you close the door, and you stand up sleeping like this because there's no place to lay down.

然后你关上门，就像这样站着睡觉，因为没有地方躺。

在布鲁克林的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

At times,they were so close they had no time to load and fire their guns.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

I can have functions with no parameters, that's fine, I will still need the open and close paren there to identify that I have no parameters.

我每次都需要进行输入码？,函数可以没有参数,我依然需要前后括号,来定义我没与参数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In the close to forty years since, no one has set foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

This is physical attraction with close bonding but no commitment, Romeo and Juliet when they first met.

爱慕对方身体,关系亲密，但没有承诺，就像罗密欧遇到了朱丽叶。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Make no mistake," "We will close Guantanamo prison which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaida."

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

He said, "No, but close."

他说，“不是，但很接近了“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The Obama administration says there are no plans to close the 3,000 kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

I think that's close,but no cigar.

我想就很接近了，但还不够。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"While President Obama has no plan for what to do with these killers, he has pledged to close the terrorist detention facility in January, to fulfill a campaign promise.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

No one is above suspicion. Socrates himself had been a close associate of a man named Alcibiades probably the most prominent Athenian in the generation after Pericles.

没有人是绝对清白的,苏格拉底自己的密友之一,就是Alcibiades，他或许是,贝里克利斯之后的年代里最著名的雅典人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"He deals with a lot. He becomes frustrated in this one a little bit because he gets this close all the time and then gets told 'no' over and over again.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"We felt like no matter how non-violent you were, unless you had a law on the books or a decree by a court, that the same restaurant that could open up its door to a black person on Monday could close it on Tuesday if there were no law demanding it be kept open."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16