I'm very much a family man and need to be close to those I love.

我其实确是个顾家男人，需要在我所爱的人身边生活。

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It's dangerous to be close to a crocodile.

靠近鳄鱼很危险。

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In this way, you will have chances to be close to nature.

这样，你就有机会接近大自然。

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To be considered for the study, children were supposed to be close to cigarette smoke at least 5 times a day.

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A lot of that had to to with the Cold War India used to be close to the Soviet Union.

这和冷战有很大的关系,印度曾经和苏联关系密切。

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It could be normal, everything, that would be a Gaussian, where if you recall there was a mean, and a standard deviation, and most values were going to be close to the mean.

可能是正态分布，也就是高斯分布，只要有平均值和标准偏差值，你就可以进行调用，大部分的值都是集中在平均值附近的。

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The top rate of income tax, including social-security contributions, will still be close to 60%.

ECONOMIST: Stumbling yet again?

They predict that growth will be close to 5 per cent again in 2010.

CNN: Soccer stars return to booming Brazil

England will be close to Australia when they walk down the tunnel on Saturday.

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