It is so detailed that unless you look up close, you would think it was a painting.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well, my family really liked that it was close and I really like that the community is really close.

嗯，学校离得很近，家里人都喜欢。而且我喜欢大家都很亲密。

公立学校和私立学校 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Both candidates campaigned hard. It was clear to everyone that the vote would be close.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

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

I knew that I was very close to finishing the proposal.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

On a line for sometime... and then it was close to the Soviet Union That's really suspicious to Washington.

有一段时间是同一战线的。,当时和苏联关系紧密,使得美国心生疑虑。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"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

They would get lesions on their hands, for example, the part of their body that was really in close contact with the cows.

比如,在与奶牛亲密接触的身体部位,也就是手上 也许会出斑

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"There were some problems with some tactics, techniques and procedures, the way in which close air support was supposed to have been executed in this case, such that, at least with one of the aircraft involved, a B-1 bomber, that plane because of how it takes its bombing routes had to break away from positive I.D.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

When I told her that, she was close to being a college graduate.

我跟她将这些时，她差不多要大学毕业了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But it came, it was threatened. They came very close to that

但它面临过危机。他们差点就把它拆毁了，

中央车站的历史 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then I want to note the transition that happens at the very bottom of this page after he says, "I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me."

我想强调的是,这页最下面的转折，在他说完“一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话“之後“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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