Getting a little closer, I realized one kayak was in trouble.

走近一点后，我发现有一艘皮划艇出了问题。

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Getting closer to the car, he noticed that there were five old ladies, two in the front seat and three in the back, wide eyed and pale faced.

走近汽车时，他注意到有五个老太太，两个坐在前排，三个坐在后排，眼睛睁得大大的，脸色苍白。

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You may not need to make a walking schedule to eat healthy but purging all junk food from your kitchen will certainly help in getting one step closer to achieving both goals.

你不可能为了健康饮食而需要制定跑步计划，但是要把垃圾食品从你的厨房里清除无疑对实现这两个目标都有帮助。

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And the commune, despite the fact that there's lots of-- you could hear in the distance the guns sometimes getting closer and closer, and attempts to break out fail miserably, they pass all sorts of impressive social legislation.

在公社里,尽管有很多...,公社不远处不时能听到枪声,不断逼近,而突围的尝试又屡次惨败,他们还通过了各式法律法规

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because it really is one step closer in getting you mastering the English language, step-by-step.

这样的话你就能离说一口流利的英语更近一步了。

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EADS, admits there is some attraction in getting closer to France's Thomson defence-electronics group, the last unaligned defence company of any significance in Europe.

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For his part, Mr Bozhkov is in charge of getting closer to Brussels, and persuading foreign investors that some of Bulgaria's crumbling Soviet-era industrial companies are worth buying.

ECONOMIST: Sprucing up Bulgaria

"Never, ever wrap your hand for any reason in the line, " Burkholder said to the volunteers who were eager to do the menial labour of science in exchange for getting a closer look at the creatures they were hoping to save.

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