Are we afraid of those who have come before us to pave the way, afraid that they carry some awful disease that if we get to close we might catch it?

我们是在恐惧这些先我们而去的人吗，我们是在害怕他们的疾病担心我们走的太近而会被传染吗？

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Get as close to the subject as you can and hold the camera steady.

尽可能靠近对象，拿稳相机。

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I couldn't get close enough to see.

我无法靠得很近去看清楚。

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The diver may put food in the water to get the animal to come close.

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But, can you see that as you get really close together the negative electronic cloud surrounding the two ions start to sense one another.

然后当你真的让它们,离得很近时,这两个离子周围的负电子云能感应到对方。

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Now they get close enough together that they start to sense that they are becoming part of one system.

现在他们足够接近了,它们开始作用了,他们开始成为体系的一部分。

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The whale numbers give plenty of opportunities for the researchers to get close to the animals - but often not close enough to get a good breath sample.

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"The pitch is going to get harder to bat on, so we have to get as close to the target as we can in the first innings, " Langer added.

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But, despite the fact they claimed to have enough support between them to get on to the ballot paper, Mr McDonnell failed to get close to the 45 nominations needed to go ahead and, on Wednesday evening, conceded defeat.

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