Although many parents believe that paying an allowance for completing chores benefits their children, a range of experts expressed concern that tying allowance very closely to chores may not be ideal.

尽管许多父母认为，给做完家务的孩子零花钱对他们有好处，但是许多专家担心，将做家务和零花钱紧密联系起来并不合适。

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Those two processes are very closely interlinked.

那两种工艺非常紧密地互相关联。

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He recognized that Sanskrit, the language of India, was related very closely to Latin, Greek, and the Germanic and Celtic languages.

他认识到梵语，即印度的语言，与拉丁语、希腊语、日尔曼语和凯尔特语密切同源。

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Although he looked at the flowers very closely, he did not touch or smell any of them.

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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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This actually relates very closely to what we discussed in class on Friday before the long weekend, and what we were talking about is the energy levels of multielectron atoms.

这实际上与,上个长周末之前的周五的课上,我们所讨论的内容有着密切的联系，当时我们在讨论,多电子原子的能级。

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We will be working very closely with FSA and customers alike to get to the bottom of it.

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Though most ETFs do trade very closely to their NAVs, discrepancies can and do happen.

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"We've looked very closely at the pressures facing families in these difficult times, " said Anne Western.

BBC: County leaders to share the load over budget pressures