N → another expression for close shave
Sooner or later, his luck is going to run out. He's had too many close calls.
迟早他的运气会走光的。他已经侥幸脱险好多次了。
I'll make sure there's a video-review process for close calls on the goal line.
我将确保在擦过门线的过程中提供视频重放。
Some of my closest friends are people whom I was at first hesitant to meet. What close calls.
说来很侥幸，我的一些密友，竟是最初我在犹豫要不要与之认识的人。
But if any schools do have to close, then the hope is to keep children learning for example, through phone calls or over the Internet.
VOA: special.2009.08.13
He qualifies exhumations as a humanitarian act that allows families to close what he calls the circle of pain and mourning in which they have been caught for a quarter of a century, and says it was unthinkable as recently as a few years ago that investigations into war crimes would have been allowed in this country.
VOA: standard.2009.12.18
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