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

我们最后赢了，但比分很近。

《牛津词典》

Phew! That was a near thing! It could have been a disaster.

哎呀！好险哪！差一点儿出事。

《牛津词典》

That was a near thing!

这事好险哪！

《新英汉大辞典》

And, that's a good thing to know because if you come out with an answer that's somewhere near the diameter of the universe and it's supposed to be the diameter of an atom, then you will know that you probably made a mistake.

这是我们需要知道的,因为当你做一道题得到的答案,是宇宙的直径,而正确答案是原子直径时，你能很快发现你的错误。

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As Wellington said at Waterloo, it was a damn near thing.

威灵顿在滑铁卢用的也是这么一招

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If they succeed, they will have done a near impossible thing: to merge open source development practices and for-profit products without users feeling ripped-off.

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This is obviously a near insane thing to believe, to think that people with lower incomes in poorer countries will actually have more wealth than people with higher incomes in richer ones.

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"I don't think you ever close the door to being prepared for what eventually may come, but I think that is not a near, near thing, " she said at a news conference.

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