Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel is close to losing what he called its "best friend" in the area.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

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，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

because when you're up on that point, you see anything that's in the water, anything close to the surface and,

因为当你站在那里的高处，你能看到贴近水面的一切，而且，

圣莫尼卡之景点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Doctors in training may have to do hundreds of stitches in some cases to close the skin after an operation.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

You wait for the pig to do something that's halfway close to dancing, like stumbling, and you reward it.

你等到猪的动作有点像跳舞，比如它摇摇晃晃的，你就奖励它。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

A lot of that had to to with the Cold War India used to be close to the Soviet Union.

这和冷战有很大的关系,印度曾经和苏联关系密切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they've got.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

So that at least,they claimed for some that through these texts that they wanted apostolic authorship or close to apostolic authorship.

所以至少有些人认为,这些书需要是使徒所著,或者亲近使徒的人所著。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But close to five hundred million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

I'd like to close with a short story of recent interaction that I had with a video over the internet.

我想用一个小故事来结束,是最近我关于网络视频的互动作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

To reduce costs, G.M.plans to close more factories and cut more jobs by the end of two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

So what makes him feel close to home, in a way, has to make him feel close to the religion he's trying to reject.

所以，要想让一个人对亲近家，在某种意义上，先得让他亲近他试图抗拒的宗教。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.10.22

To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

在创作的时候，作者会给文章加上个限制，他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In two thousand eight they had close to two million students -- nearly three times more than in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

I don't believe we'll-- I'll--come close to scratching the surface of what I would enjoy doing, by the time I've died.

我不能相信-,我能推测死时,自己会对什么感兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One sports writer later described Clemente's throwing, running and hitting during the World Series as close to the level of perfection.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

They thought, for example, if you could do something with one element, if you looked at an element very close to it, it would be similar enough that you could maybe replace it with that.

他们认为，比如，用一种元素可以做的，用它邻近的元素，代替它的位置,也应该能做到。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Then I want to talk about options markets-- this is getting close to the end of the course.

接下来的内容将会是期权市场,讲到这里课程也就接近尾声了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The pressure points come when the issues are so close to the bone that a variety of people don't feel that they had the luxury to do that, that their interests, their commitments are threatened.

有时也有一些压力,这时话题通常比较敏感，许多人,觉得言论自由成为了一种奢侈品，他们的兴趣和信仰都受到了威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wrote in the Washington Post that the deep financial crisis is close to the end.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

It could be normal, everything, that would be a Gaussian, where if you recall there was a mean, and a standard deviation, and most values were going to be close to the mean.

可能是正态分布，也就是高斯分布，只要有平均值和标准偏差值，你就可以进行调用，大部分的值都是集中在平均值附近的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This year, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say resistance is close to one hundred percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Sudiptha had suggested earlier on, you want to be close to 5.

苏蒂帕之前提到过,我们应该选更靠近5的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They had plenty of food and a good roof over their heads and the river ran close to their door.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

We're going to close the cycle with another adiabatic step.

换一个,绝热过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

They were physically close to it and psychologically close to it.

身体上和心理上都是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选