Forty years he had wielded the brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his Mistress's robe.
他耍了四十年的画笔，还是同艺术女神隔着相当距离，连她的长袍的边缘都没有摸到。
That was the best chore of all. It made possible getting near enough to her to close out the others in the classroom.
这是最好的差使，可以接近她，把全班里其他的人都撇开。
The smoldering fire and fumes prevented rescue workers from getting near the plant, officials say the blast area resembles a war zone.
闷烧的大火及浓烟阻碍救援人员接近工厂附近，而官员称爆炸区域类似于战场。
Since it was getting near to the Qingming holiday, there was a traffic jam caused by the many people driving back to their home towns.
由于快到清明节了，所以开车回家乡过节的人多，造成交通拥堵。
"Getting Near Laoshe: Book Review for Critical Biography of Laoshe by A Manchurian Scholar". National Literature , July 2000, pp. 78~91.
“走近老舍：一位满族学人的《老舍评传》”，《民族文学》2000年7月号，第78~91页。北京。
He was angry. He told reporters that his firefighters were having trouble getting near the fire, because fire buffs who wanted to help were really getting in the way.
他告诉记者，他非常地生气，因为想帮忙的救火爱好者们挡住了路，导致他的消防员们无法靠近火场。
"Historically wine has had a good run, but there is a feeling it is getting near the end of the bubble," said one City trader. "Every man and his dog seems to be cropping up as a wine broker."
“从历史上来看，红酒的走势不错，但也许已经接近泡沫破裂的时候了，”一位交易者说，“随便一个人，甚至他的狗，似乎都成了葡萄酒掮客。”
It was getting dark and he could not find a place near the station.
天渐渐黑了，他在车站附近找不到地方。
But if the progressive proposal has all these virtues, why isn't it getting anywhere near as much attention as the much less serious Ryan proposal?
然而，既然这份进步提案具有那么多的好处，为什么它得到的关注并不比那份认真负责程度很低的瑞安提案多多少？
As graduation draws near, Ireally need to speed things up in getting a solid deal before I leave campus.
随着毕业的临近，我确实需要在离开校园之前，尽快找到一份稳定的工作。
So why aren't smooth dogfish (Mustelus Canis), which are near threatened, getting equal protection?
那么为什么(美国)大星鲨这种濒危动物没能得到同等的保护呢？
Stuck at an angle near a buried fire hydrant, they were pushing and spinning and getting nowhere, with the smell of burning rubber noxiously sharp in the cold air.
附近有一桩被大雪覆盖的消防栓，车子被卡住了，她们推、转都使过了，没有进展，凛冽的空气中却充斥着刺鼻的橡胶味。
When a house gets robbed, the likelihood of that house or houses near it getting robbed again spikes in the following days.
如果一家被盗窃，那么接下来几天内，其附近的房屋被盗的可能性很大。
A: you can go to the subway station near the No. 1 Gate of the Park and take Line 4 to the Central Avenue station. After getting out of the station, you can walk 5 minutes' and get there.
A：您可以从园区的1号口附近的地铁乘坐点，乘坐4号线至世纪大道站，出站步行5分钟即可到达。
“Before getting the certificate in my name, it was just socially understood that the land belonged to my husband,” says Tashegu Woretaw, 48, a widow with a hectare of land near Mamo’s farm.
“在拿到写有我自己名字的土地证之前，社会上普遍认为土地属于我丈夫，”48岁的丧偶妇女TasheguWoretaw说。 她的一公顷农田位于Memo的农田附近。
As graduation draws near, I really need to speed things up in getting a solid deal before I leave campus.
随着毕业的临近，我确实需要在离开校园之前，尽快找到一份稳定的工作。
With short-term policy rates at or near zero, getting more of a monetary boost means expanding a set of instruments whose efficacy, and side-effects, are ill-understood (see article).
由于短期政策利率接近或已经达到零，因此获得更多的货币提振意味着扩展一系列手段，而这些手段的效果和副作用却并不知道。
The energy intensive lamps are quite literally, and figuratively, getting a green makeover and may be sprouting on a street near you soon.
这些能耗大的街灯真正地同时也象征性地经历了一次绿色转变，并且可能很快就会遍布在你们的街道上。
WHATEVER system you're using, make sure you've got it near to hand so you don't have to keep getting up to find things.
不管你使用哪一套系统，确保你所需要的工具在你的身边，不要把时间浪费在找东西上。
Three months of work had gone into getting the 105-year-old “Actor” as near to its original state as possible.
三个月的工作已基本上让这个105岁的画作回复到了它最初的状态。
Getting Chinese to try the sport can be a challenge, says Brendan Sheridan, a 29-year-old American who sells and rents surfboards from a one-room shop near Dadonghai Beach.
29岁的布伦达·谢里丹(BrendanSheridan)来自美国，如今在大东海海滩经营着一家只有一个房间的小店，出售、出租冲浪板，他说，让中国人去冲浪很难。
"Our brains pick up complex social cues and process many subtle things," she said. "Computers are nowhere near getting there."
“我们的大脑善于总结复杂的社交线索以及处理很多微妙的事情，”她说。“在这一点上，电脑离人类还差得远呢。”
As an aid to getting your torso straight and flat, take the area of your upper ribs near your axilla (armpit) down diagonally toward your front foot.
让你的躯干直和平坦的一个帮助方法是，让你的上肋骨区域靠近腋窝(腋下)，向你的前脚的方向对角向下。
The night before the interview, he suggests getting your interview clothes ready and putting all your important documents near the door so that you can just grab them and go.
在面试头一天晚上，他建议人们准备好参加面试时要穿的衣服，把一切重要资料放在门口附近，这样你可以拿上就走。
More and more Chinese people will experience this hassle in the near future. This is practical information to prepare you for getting a driver's license.
不久的将来，越来越多的中国人会碰到这样的麻烦。如果你要申请驾驶执照，这篇短文提供的信息是很实用的。
Afterward, the shaken bees chose to avoid getting their mouthparts near an ambiguous odor presented to them - apparently pessimistic about what it might hold.
事后，被摇晃的蜜蜂选择避开用口器靠近它们面前的不明气味—很显然，这些蜜蜂对其可能抓住的东西持悲观态度。
As an aid to getting your torso straight and flat take the area of your upper ribs near your axilla (armpit) down diagonally toward your front foot.
让你的躯干直和平坦的一个帮助方法是，让你的上肋骨区域凑近腋窝(腋下)，向你的前脚的方向对角向下。
With interest rates near record lows and property values still slumping, getting into the landlord business is cheaper than it has been in years.
现在利率接近历史低位，房价还在下跌，此时开始房东生涯，成本要比以往低不少。
The researchers undertook their study to find out where teenagers were getting most of their physical activity - whether at or near home, school or elsewhere.
研究员们发现青少年经常会在家和学校的附近或其它地方运动。
The canopy spectral reflectance were gradually getting larger in the visible region and smaller in the near infrared region as the growth stage went on.
冠层光谱反射率随发育期推移在可见光范围内逐渐增大，在近红外区域逐渐降低；
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