In two thousand eight they had close to two million students -- nearly three times more than in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

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

because when you're up on that point, you see anything that's in the water, anything close to the surface and,

因为当你站在那里的高处，你能看到贴近水面的一切，而且，

圣莫尼卡之景点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He believed that much of what was being said and done in Ohio was close to the crime of treason.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

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

But the risk rises to one in every 40 people among those who have a close family member with the disease.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

And in Economics, this is about firm's crowding together to try and get shoppers who are close to them.

在经济学中,他表现为商业普遍集中,以试图争取附近的客源

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel is close to losing what he called its "best friend" in the area.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

They might be,for example,in an accident, and come close to being killed,but walk away without a scratch.

比如说在事故中幸存，差点送命，但结果毫发无伤。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

I think one reason why they may have changed it in 2003 is that interest rates were getting really close to zero in 2003.

我认为其中一个,为什么他们在2003年改变了它的原因,就是利率在2003年真的快要接近零了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

What does it mean to meet another person in such a close proximity?

跟一个人如此近距离的接触,是什么样的感觉？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wrote in the Washington Post that the deep financial crisis is close to the end.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

So if we compare l increasing here, so a 3 s to a 3 p to a 3 d, what we find is that it's only in the s orbital that we have a significant probability of actually getting very close to the nucleus.

我们比较当ｌ变大的时候，从３ｓ到３ｐ到３ｄ,我们可以发现只有ｓ轨道,有很大的概率,非常接近原子核。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Same in Boston. Close to that in Philadelphia.

波士顿也一样,费城也差不多情况

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In April,after the first cases in the United States, officials told schools to close at the first sign of an H1N1 outbreak.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

That's fairly close to what I had in mind.

这和我想的已经很接近了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Land protests last year forced the company to close its factory in the Indian state of West Bengal.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

That gets close to my involvement in life.

那是我的口头禅。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

If someone offers me an amount that is close to my selling price, I might say the amount is in the ballpark.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

And now let's suppose that your parents are going away for the weekend and they leave you with the following instructions: If it's raining tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you are to close the windows, open the door and let the cat in, phone the grocer and have him send over the following list of groceries. All right.

现在假设你们的父母这周末,离开了，给你们留下了,以下的一些指示：,如果明天早上下雨了，醒来的时候，要把窗户关好，打开门,让猫进来，打电话给杂货店并且让他,送来以下的生活用品，好的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

On Tuesday, federal officials in the United States advised schools not to close anymore when they have cases.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

What is this? This is a wonderful piece of abstraction. It is saying, you don't need to know squat about what's inside the body of this function. You don't have to worry about the parameter names, because they're going to be preserved, you don't need to worry about how I'm doing it, this tells you how you can use this, in order to use it correctly. Of course, I can then close it off, and off we go.

但是这能告诉你一些信息,这是什么？,这是一段完美的抽象,它的意思是你不需要知道,这个函数的内部构造，你不必担心参数是否重名，因为它们已经被预存了,你不需要担心我如何使用它,它告诉了你你该如何操作，从而正确的使用它，当然我也可以把它关掉。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It can also cause flooding. Wind speeds in a category two hurricane can reach close to one hundred eighty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

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

As they got close to the area, one man stood in the street blocking their way.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

It's to admit that this is in fact a late epic and that it derives from a close, studious, student-like imitation of the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

也就等于承认它事实上是一部晚期的史诗作品,是源自于雷同的，学究气的，小学生般的,对荷马与维吉尔写的伟大史诗的模仿。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选