We won in the end but it was a near thing.

我们最后赢了，但比分很近。

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He should have won the match—it was a near miss.

这场比赛本该是他赢的—真是功亏一篑。

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Rescuers said it was a near miracle no-one was killed in the accident.

营救人员称，车祸中无一人死亡真是个奇迹。

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"Where the Wild Things Are. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another " It was a spot near the trees that frame the South lawn, where books borrowed from a local library were read aloud.

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It was just a more refined, more highly evolved, version of Ancient Near Eastern religion.

这是一种更加精炼的，更加进化的,古近东宗教版本。

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Well, it was published originally as an article in 1979, but this is also near the end of a period of flourishing that Derrida's essay inaugurates, and other things have begun to become crucial.

它初次出版是在1979年，作为一篇文章发表，但是这也快到了繁盛时期的末端,德里达的论文出现的那个时期，其它的东西开始变得重要。

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It's just, you know, mechanical problems with the plane, but it was a near miss.

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As The New York Times reports today, it was a near-flawless run.

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The only sign he was discomforted by hearing it was a near constant pulling of his tongue in his hands.

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