The two awards for costume design category are said to be closely tied.

据说，这两个服装类奖项关系密切。

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It used to be closely tied to Buddhist prayer, but now its largely secularized in the form of a giant country-wide water and chalk fight, designed to represent spiritual cleansing.

它原本是佛教徒的节日，但现在成为了全国人民相互泼水的节日，据说这代表了一种精神洗礼。

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As things turned out, running a company so closely tied to a mission of public service turned out to be far trickier than he thought.

结果，经营这样一家与公众服务事业紧密相关的企业，远比他想象的要难以驾驭。

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Desires, at the very least, seem to be, at least in typical cases, very closely tied to a series of emotions.

欲望,看上去,起码在常规的例子里,似乎是跟一系列的情绪紧密相连的

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In that instance, television is a microplatform, a device class that would benefit by being opened to third-party development, but for which functionality must be closely tied to the content and the usage of the device as opposed to a broad and generic one like the tablet.

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And we know that the success of every American will be tied more closely than ever before to the level of education that they achieve.

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This may be in part an economic phenomenon tied closely to the financial collapse.

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