I had received a letter from a very close friend.

我收到了一位非常亲近的朋友的来信。

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Jo is a very close friend.

乔是我们亲密的朋友。

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I learnt of her arrival from a close friend.

我从一位好友那里听说她到了。

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A distraught Elizabeth Taylor issued a statement saying her life will be empty after the loss of her close friend.

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This is why in the last passage on your sheet from the interview with Stefano Rosso, de Man is willing to venture on a categorical distinction between his own work and that of his very close friend, Jacques Derrida.

那就解释了为什么在纸上的最后一段,选自斯蒂法诺，罗素的采访，德曼愿意在自己的作品与他的密友雅克，德里达的作品,之间一个绝对的差别上冒险。

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It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

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Russian oligarchs with offshore accounts in one of their favorite Mediterranean Islands, Cyprus, just lost a close friend.

FORBES: Russian Oligarchs Lose Friend In Cyprus Banks

At the centre of the trial was testimony by the government's star witness, David Headley, once Rana's close friend.

BBC: Mumbai attack group aid man given 14 years in prison

Another senior government minister had to resign soon after when it emerged he gave free equity in his team's franchise to a close friend.

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