Phew! That was close—that car nearly hit us.

啊！好险！那辆车差点儿撞上我们。

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He was going to move into an apartment, but at the last moment, my cousin and he saw a new house for sale, that was close to his business.

他准备搬进一间公寓，不过就在最后一刻，我堂姐和他看中了一栋待售的新房，而且这房子离伯父的公司很近。

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To the cult's adherents, Coltrane's music by the end had ascended to a plane of intensity that was close to godliness, and could not be questioned.

对祭礼的信徒来说，柯川的音乐最后已经上升到一种不容置疑的近乎天籁之音。

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He believed that much of what was being said and done in Ohio was close to the crime of treason.

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But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

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Well, my family really liked that it was close and I really like that the community is really close.

嗯，学校离得很近，家里人都喜欢。而且我喜欢大家都很亲密。

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He has already had to pay a "solidarity tax" that was close to 1, 000 euros.

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Natalie Konstantinovna Mark was born in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a part of the tsarist empire that was close to the tastes of Western Europe.

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That was close to a meltdown, caused by a candle.

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