Next time you have the option to either stay home and close the blinds or to sit on the porch with another human being.

下次你可以选择呆在家里，关上百叶窗，或者和另一个人坐在门廊上。

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Lightning struck close to the truck below us, next to the dirt road we had driven up. Dad worried aloud that lightning might hit the truck.

雷电袭击在我们留在下面的卡车附近，紧挨着它又袭击了已经驱车而来的那条山傍土路，爸爸担心闪电可能会击中卡车。

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But in many cases, a merger will lead a good school to close, forcing its pupils to take long bus journeys to the next town.

然而许多情形下，合并会关闭一所好学校，迫使它的学生搭乘长距离公共汽车到邻镇上学。

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General Motors, once the world's biggest automaker, also plans to close about 2,500 dealerships by the end of next year.

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With dissonant intervals they tend to be frequencies that are sounding right next to each other, very close-by frequencies.

这些不协调音程的频率,听起来彼此很相似,频率很相近

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I almost said 'next week' but we rarely plan that close to the event.

我这里说“下星期”,但其实很少在那么短的时间内才计划。

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Short rates in euro land are poised to drop close to our next-to-nothing level.

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