英语释义

• (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;

  "lasted approximately an hour"

  "in just about a minute"

  "he's about 30 years old"

  "I've had about all I can stand"

  "we meet about once a month"

  "some forty people came"

  "weighs around a hundred pounds"

  "roughly $3,000"

  "holds 3 gallons, more or less"

  "20 or so people were at the party"

片语

in close proximity to与…靠得很近，接近

close attention to service重视服务

pay close attention to密切注意

right round在附近；整整一圈地

close e to接近

close attention to human关注人类

close man to man紧逼人钉人防守

Close enough to kiss近到可以亲吻

Close e to Nature绿色环保

paying close attention to密切注意

approximate接近，近似；粗略估计

英汉例句

• but is this where we should end, so close to our ultimate goal?

  但是，我们在这么接近我们最终目标的地方就至此为止吗？

• 「most calculations suggest that we would be unlikely to find anything that close to us in the universe, 」 he says.

  「绝大多数计算表明，我们未必会在宇宙中找到与自己接近的同类」，他说。

• do you live in heaven or even close to it?

  你是生活在天堂中或者仅仅在接近它呢？

• close to a million people have signed on to the campaign, but this is just the beginning.

  现在已有一百万人加入到救助海洋生物的活动中，这仅是个开始。

• even after all these years in my line of work, i still felt humility from being so close to death.

  即使在这个行当里干了这么多年，每次与死亡如此近距离的接触，我还是会感到诚惶诚恐。

• we are not only inferring emotions during phone calls, but the emotions of the people close to the phones whether in a pub or during a meeting at work.

  无论是在酒吧或在一个工作会议，我们不但要推断人们在打电话时的情绪，而且要推断人们接近手机时的情绪。

• however, we can use relativity as a model to see what happens at speeds close to that of light.

  不过，我们可以用相对论这个模型来看看接近光速的情况下会发生什么。

• one, unlike during the cold war, the value of the espionage that these people appear to have conducted seems close to worthless, on both sides.

  第一，与冷战时期不同，这些人曾在谍报工作中具有的价值现在对双方来说似乎都已接近于零。

• but for the brave people on board, close to this massive object, time would be slowed down.

  而在宇宙走飞船上的那些勇敢的人，接近这个巨大的物体，时间将放缓。

• yet another example close to heart.

  还有另一个接近要点的例子。

• but these factors do not account for the interesting question of howthere came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs in aparticular place very close to their time of giving birth.

  但是这些事实不能解释这个令人感兴趣的问题，就是为什么在一个特殊的靠近他们出生的地方如此的集中了这么多怀孕的鱼龙。

• poor mexico, so far from god and so close to the united states.

  可怜的墨西哥离上帝是那么的远，离美国又那么的近。

• people will see me on top of the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and god and how close to them i am reaching.

  这样人们将会在山顶看到我。 当他们仰视我的树干，就会联想到天堂和上帝，因为我是如此的接近天堂和上帝。

• if you could take each relatively homogeneous set of things and group them close to each other in a transformed file, standard compressors would have more to work with.

  如果您能获取每个相对一致的事物的集合并且在已转换的文件中将它们相互紧密分组，标準压缩程序将会有很多工作要处理。

• mister sagan said he read a book that told how our sun is a star that is very close to earth. the book also said that the stars in the night sky were also suns but very far away.

  萨根先生说，他看了一本介绍距我们地球非常近的太阳是一颗什么样的恒星的书，这本书还介绍了在夜晚的天空上闪烁的星星也都是恒星，只是距我们很远而已。

• not surprisingly, recovery rates for some lenders have plunged from close to 100% to around 20%.

  不出意料，一些放债人的贷款回收率已经由接近100%直降到20%左右。

• because of treasury backing, the bulk of fannie’s and freddie’s debt (though not their preferred shares) will settle at par or close to it.

  由于财政部的支持，大多数两房负债（尽管不是他们的优先股）将会等于或接近于平价偿还。

• do we simply not want to be bothered with the ailments of those close to deaths door?

  抑或是我们仅仅是不想跟这些已经接近死亡之门的人所患有的疾病打交道呢？

• only a society close to our level of development would be able to pick up an intentional broadcast while failing to notice tv and radar.

  只有接近我们发展水平的外星人社会，在我们未能通知电视和雷达的条件下，才可能检测出有意的广播。

• he will be greatly missed by all of those close to him—family, friends, and colleagues—and the countlessmanagers who have been helped by his writing and lectures.

  所有与他亲近的人都会深深地怀念他-----家人，朋友，同事-----以及不计其数的从其作品和演讲中获得帮助的经理人。

• what kind of sample size do you need to generally get close to that actual?

  为了得到接近实际的的结果，你一般需要什么样大小的样本？

• this suggests that the pound is now close to its underlying value against the dollar and about 15% below its long-term value against the euro.

  也就是说英镑兑美元的比率已经接近于体现其根本价值,同时兑欧元的比率显示其长期价值被低估了15%.

• that would be close to las vegas but well behind macau, the only place in china where casinos are allowed, and which has more than 30.

  这将接近拉斯维加斯但还远不及澳门（澳门有超过30多家赌场，也是中国境内唯一可以开设赌场的地方）。

• 「if you talk to people who live close to nature and they tell you this is unusual and this is not something they have noticed before, then i really put emphasis on that, 」 he says.

  「你和生活接近大自然的人们谈话，如果他们会告诉你，这不正常，这是他们以前没有察觉到的事情，那我就会特别重视这一点。」他说。

• poetry in motion，dancing close to me.

  动态的诗，向我舞近。(丰田汽车)

相似词

over（板球）一轮投球

almostad 差不多，几乎

nearlyad 差不多，几乎；密切地

around围绕；在那边；绕着；同……一致；到处；以（已提及物）为中心；迂回

besidead 在附近；况且，此外

virtuallyad 事实上，几乎；实质上