"Why would you ever want to clone humans," Westhusin asks, "when we're not even close to getting it worked out in animals yet?"
“为什么你想要克隆人类，”威斯苏森问道，“而我们甚至还没有成功克隆动物呢？”
Mr. Miller made big bets on financial shares recovering, and that hasn’t happened —not even close.
米勒在金融股复苏上下了重注，然而迟迟未从其所愿，现在甚至有些遥不可及了。
That’s not to say celery isn’t a great food to eat (it very much is for a variety of reasons), but it’s not even close to “negative calorie”.
并非说芹菜不是好食物，事实上芹菜绝对是有很多优点的良好食材，不过，它远远达不到“负热量”的标准。
You're not even close to being screwed. In fact, the worst case scenario is that things don't work out and you have to go back to doing exactly what you are doing right now.
即使不成功，你也不会“完了”，事实上，最差的情况是你失败了，然后回来做你现在在做的事。
Although the theory of holography is almost perfect, the practical holographic display technique is not even close to what we expect.
尽管全息显示理论已基本趋于完善，但实用全息显示与人们的期望还相差甚远。
No oil major is able to affect energy prices on its own and even Exxon is far smaller than the world's largest energy company. It is not even close.
没有一家石油企业能独自影响能源价格，而且就连埃克森美孚也比世界最大的能源公司小得多，甚至连接近都算不上。
Not even close. In fact, by Einstein's own admission, he considered being a mathematician instead of a physicist.
事实正好相反。实际上，爱因斯坦承认自己曾经考虑过成为一名数学家而非物理学家。
Not even close. In fact, by Einstein's own admission, he considered being a mathematician instead of a physicist.
事实正好相反。实际上，爱因斯坦承认自己曾经考虑过成为一名数学家而非物理学家。
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