For example,a W.H.O.statement urged nations not to close their borders or limit trade and travel.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

We're still close enough to the summer that the air is not just filling us up with extra static electricity, so it's a little more challenging here.

我们现在离夏天更近了,这样空气中不总是,充满额外的静电，所以这时做实验,会有一些挑战性。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Let's say that your brother who you are really close to is dating a girl that is not telling him the truth.

假设你有个关系非常亲密的哥哥，他正和一个女孩谈恋爱，但这女孩却并没有以诚相待。

The thing is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

It's a way of becoming not just close to the real, but also part of some mystical unity.

这是一种不过于接近现实，保留着部分，神秘色彩的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But he said Congress did not have power to close new territory to any American citizen.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

In our affections, in our caring, who we like, who we feel close to, whose pain bothers us, we are not indiscriminate.

我们对他人的喜爱，对他人的关心，我们喜欢谁，与谁亲近，在乎谁的痛苦，并非一视同仁的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not have the power to close territories to slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

You know, I was not really disappointed, it found something close enough to 3 that I'm happy.

我真的不失望，因为它找到了一个，和3相当接近的数,我还是挺高兴的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It was not easy to get close enough to them to shoot.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Because Claire Elise would rather not have run, Let's try once more, Close your eyes again, just to keep life interesting, let's switch to this row.

因为克莱尔·伊莉斯还不如不参选,我们再试一次,把眼睛闭上,让游戏更有趣一点,我们换成这排吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

General Scott did not come close to winning the presidency.

VOA: special.2011.08.14

.. 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

But they must be careful not to get too close.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Really good poker players play close to their best all the time and they're not really bothered when they lose; I think that's true in markets too.

真正好的玩家,会一直努力玩的更好,但是如果输了，他们也不会真的在意；,我想这种理论在市场中也是适用的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

White House officials have also made clear they will not revisit plans to close the U.S.detention center in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

Okay. So that's Richard Strauss's approach to death, not particularly relevant to you young people but for oldergentlemen such as Professor Kagan and myself we're getting close to that. Right, Don?

理查·施特劳斯的死亡与净化讲的是死亡,对你们年轻人可能有些距离,但对于我和卡根教授这些老绅士来说,我们离死亡越来越近,对吧,先生

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The political analyst believes Cairo would be better off to focus on issues close to home, whether successful or not.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

I mean probably those of you-- I mean I can see you people squirming right now when I--just at the mention of that-- so I'm not going to go through the process of having you close your eyes and imagine eating the cockroach.

我看到现在在座的有些同学,已经开始觉得恶心了,我只是提了一下,我又没真让你闭上眼睛,去想象吃蟑螂

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"More often than not they are closely related to them or are close friends of the family."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

So, I want to contrast that with another concept that seemed to be opposing ideas, and that is thinking about not how far away the most probable radius is, but thinking about how close an electron can get to the nucleus if it's actually in that orbital.

我要将它和另外一个,看起来相反的概念相比较，我们不是考虑,最可能半径离原子核有多远，而是考虑如果电子在那个轨道上,能多接近原子核。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I tried that out on my parents.Not even close. Guys, I'm going to the prom with Eric.

VOA: standard.other

It's not--It's actually close to how linguists describe normal languages, but it's very simple.

这个例子和语言学家所描述的,正常语言非常接近,但却很简单

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

North Korea is warning the United States not to send surveillance planes too close to the site of a planned long-range rocket launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

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

Elsewhere, farmers have not fared as well. In Niger,the city of Agadez lost close to 400 hectares of land used for farming and cattle.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

So not only was he choosing a position close to the Conservatives: he was choosing exactly their position.

他不只是选了一个临近保守派的立场,他选的就是一个保守派的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Not just to say that for maintaining the state security and then we close them."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

That's what they say,but again, RIM has been keeping its cards very close to its chest on this matter and has not been particularly eager to address any of these issues publically.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"These ads do have a huge impact. So many people know that they are watching the Super Bowl not just for the game but for the ads, that they are paying close attention to the ads and to the messages."

VOA: standard.2010.01.27