Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.

与把他和黛西相隔的遥远距离相比，那盏灯似乎离黛西很近，进得几乎可以触摸到她，就好比一颗星星距离月亮一样近。

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We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.

我们要将一篇文章写到最好，并尽可能地接近理想状态。

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Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback Safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.

回顾这一天，你会发现骑马观赏野生动物将是你最接近于回应野性呼唤的一次体验，这是难以否认的。

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But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

- The aftermath of--the historical close reading aftermath of-- the New Criticism does precisely that, if one sees deconstruction as a response to the New Criticism.

细读的后果-,就是新批评派所做的，如果有人认为解构主义是对新解构主义的回应。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

For some others it might mean being basically restricted to the home, if not all the time, then the only exception being in public, in the company of a close-male relative as chaperon.

在一些别的地方可能意味着,基本上深居简出，即使不是一天到晚，也只有外出是例外，而且必须有一个男性近亲作监护人陪同。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

With one lower-house seat still in doubt, the vote is as close as a Queensland afternoon.

ECONOMIST: The Australian election

Although not a free market in some respects, Hong Kong got as close as a major economy has done.

FORBES: Charter Cities: Escape From Statist Miasma

This is as close as a right-wing British Tory comes to saying sorry.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot