Even if you cannot close that gap, maybe you can close others, and doing so would be to the benefit of all concerned.

即使你不能缩小这一差距，也许可以弥合其他差距，这样做将对所有相关方都有好处。

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If it becomes a petro-currency, many factories will be forced to close unless the needlessly high costs of doing business in Brazil are slashed.

如果雷亚儿变成石油货币，除非在巴西经营的无谓高商业成本被削减，很多工厂都会被迫关门的。

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However, doing this too close to bedtime may actually cause difficulties in getting to sleep as your body will still be revved up.

然而，在接近睡觉的时间锻炼实际上可能导致入睡困难，因为你的身体还是还兴奋的。

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There are also all kinds of paradoxes and subtle puns and ironies, and in section where you'll be doing a lot of your close reading work, those are some of the things that will be drawn to your attention.

里面有各种悖论，微妙的双关语，明讥暗讽，在课上我们将会做很多精细的阅读，而那些就是你们应该注意的地方。

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Schools which are deemed to be not doing enough to close the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils will have to produce action plans showing how they will spend pupil premium funding.

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The Second World War is drawing to its exhausted close, but these young Americans still seem to be doing battle with themselves, and, rather than expressing their quandary in song, they carve a woman out of sand on the beach.

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We choose an exercise close to what they will be doing on daily basis, even for non-technical roles.

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