He was too close to the door to close it.

他离门太近以至于关不了门。

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Zacharias heard the door close.

札哈里亚斯听到门关上了。

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She was careful not to close the door on the possibility of further talks.

她十分注意不让进一步谈判的大门关上。

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They had plenty of food and a good roof over their heads and the river ran close to their door.

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And now let's suppose that your parents are going away for the weekend and they leave you with the following instructions: If it's raining tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you are to close the windows, open the door and let the cat in, phone the grocer and have him send over the following list of groceries. All right.

现在假设你们的父母这周末,离开了，给你们留下了,以下的一些指示：,如果明天早上下雨了，醒来的时候，要把窗户关好，打开门,让猫进来，打电话给杂货店并且让他,送来以下的生活用品，好的。

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and you close the door, and you stand up sleeping like this because there's no place to lay down.

然后你关上门，就像这样站着睡觉，因为没有地方躺。

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If GOP primary voters are paying attention, this should close the door on poor old Newt.

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And I want to be clear: These sanctions do not close the door on diplomacy.

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"You slide the cartridge in, close the door, and away you go, " says patient Mackay.

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