In the past, universities were interchangeable, and most students chose one close to home.

过去，大学是可以互换的，大多数学生选择了一个离家近。

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We know that students don’t come close to meeting these requirements, and that the shortfall has quadrupled over time.

我们知道学生们离这些要求还很远，并且时间越长，距离越拉越远。

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For over thirty years since its establishment, this school has graduated close to 4,000 students for the country.

多年来，我校为国家培养了近4,000名毕业生。

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The school had close to forty thousand students during the fall term.

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Now this class is too big for us to have some close, intimate conversation between the 150-180, however many students there are here.

这个班级太大了以致我们不能得到结论，在150-180页之间展开深入讨论，然而学生太多了。

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Let me close by speaking directly to the students here -- the next generation who are going to be writing the next great chapter in the American story.

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So making sure that there are the right services in place to help these students adapt, to help them achieve and close the stark education gaps that exist in these communities today was a sort of call to action for a number of school districts.

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But some questioned the police decision to close the schools, which affected thousands of students.

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