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a./ad. 近的（地）21 次
It’s incredibly difficult to get that close to a skittish sun-warmed insect.
要如此靠近一只被太阳晒暖、容易受惊的昆虫，难度大得令人难以置信。
Were it not for opportunities to observe these beautiful, wild creatures close to home, many more people would be driven by their fascination to travel to wild areas to seek out, disturb and even hunt them down.
如果没有在家附近观察这些美丽的野生动物的机会，会有更多的人受好奇心驱使前往野外，去寻找、打扰甚至猎杀它们。
With the global population predicted to hit close to 10 billion by 2050, and forecasts that agricultural production in some regions will need to nearly double to keep pace, food security is increasingly making headlines.
据预测，到2050年全球人口将接近100亿，而且一些地区的农业产量需要几乎翻一番才能跟上步伐，粮食安全日益成为头条新闻。
The word “assuage” (Line 8, Para.2) is closest in meaning to ____.
单词“assuage”（第2段第8行）的意思最接近于____。
The word "transgressions" (Paragraph 5) is closest in meaning to ____
单词“transgressions”（第5段）的意思最接近于____
The phrase “beef up” (Para. 2) is closest in meaning to ____
短语“beef up”（第2段）的意思最接近____
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The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.
在过去八年里，太阳能电池板的成本下降了80%，风力涡轮机的成本下降了近三分之一。
The word “plummeting” (Para.2) is closest in meaning to ____
单词“plummeting”（第2段）的意思最接近于____
will bring the US closer to other countries.
将使美国与其他国家走得更近。
It has not gotten anywhere close to that, and one big reason is sticker shock: Passengers must pay $85 every five years to process their background checks.
它离这一目标还差得很远，一个重要原因是价格令人咋舌：乘客每五年必须支付85美元用于办理背景审查。
The word “expedited” (Para. 5) is closest in meaning to ____
“expedited”一词（第5段）的意思最接近____
The word “acclimation” (Para.3) is closest in meaning to ____
单词“acclimation”（第3段）的意思最接近于____
The phrase “impinging on” (Line 2, Para. 2) is closest in meaning to ____
短语“impinging on”（第二段第2行）的意思最接近于____
The expression “more lenient” (Para. 4) is closest in meaning to ____
表达“more lenient”（第四段）的意思最接近于____
The word “coax” (Para.6) is closest in meaning to ____
单词“coax”（第6段）的意思最接近____
The phrase “flagged up” (Para. 2) is the closest in meaning to ____
短语“flagged up”（第2段）的意思最接近于____
The word “viscerally” (Line 2, Para.5) is closest in meaning to ____
单词“viscerally”（第5段第2行）的意思最接近____
The word “indictment” (Para. 2) is closest in meaning to ____
单词“indictment”（第2段）的意思最接近于____
The phrase “reneging on” (Para. 1) is closest in meaning to ____
短语“reneging on”（第一段）的意思最接近____
But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.
但如果学区实际上是对那些因家庭生活复杂而不做作业的学生网开一面，那就危险地接近于暗示需要为贫困儿童降低标准了。
Finally, figures close to the French government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonisation: eg., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.
最后，接近法国政府的人士还私下表示，欧元区成员国应同意在财政和社会方面进行一定程度的协调，例如抑制在公司税率或劳动力成本上的竞争。
v./n. 关7 次
And anyway — aren’t they all closing?
况且——它们不是都在关门吗？
The number of libraries that have closed since 2010 is disputed.
自2010年以来关闭的图书馆数量存在争议。
One of the biggest barriers to gaining buy-in occurs when the owner of an idea is viewed as argumentative, defensive, or close-minded.
获得认同的最大障碍之一，是想法的提出者被视为好争辩、爱防御或思想封闭。
[Without] the need to be touched to open or close, automatic doors are essential in [improving] disabled access to buildings and helping provide general [convenience] to commercial buildings.
自动门无需触碰即可开关，在改善残障人士进出建筑物的条件、为商业建筑提供整体便利方面都至关重要。
Zoos should have been closed down as they prioritize money making over animals’ wellbeing.
动物园早就该关闭了，因为它们把赚钱置于动物的福祉之上。
Unexpected results have two benefits: you pretty quickly learn to deal with disappointment and realise that when one door closes, another opens.
意想不到的结果有两个好处：你会很快学会应对失望，并意识到一扇门关上时，另一扇门就会打开。
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Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender, ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at the same time obscure or even close off others.
诸如我们阅读时所处的地点和时代，以及我们的性别、民族、年龄和社会阶层等因素，会促使我们倾向于某些解读，但同时也会遮蔽甚至排除其他解读。
a./ad. 紧密的（地）7 次
And if the postgraduate student population also grows rapidly and there is loss of a close apprenticeship relationship between faculty members and students, the student culture becomes the chief socializing force for new postgraduate students, with consequences for the intellectual and academic life of the institution — this was seen in America as well as in France, Italy, West Germany, and Japan.
而如果研究生人数也迅速增长，教师和学生之间失去了紧密的师徒关系，学生文化就会成为新研究生社会化的主要力量，并对院校的智识和学术生活产生影响——这种情况在美国以及法国、意大利、西德和日本都出现过。
Close cooperation among leading economies.
主要经济体之间的密切合作。
establish closer ties with tech companies.
与科技公司建立更紧密的联系。
[Besides] helping you feel close and [connected] to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can bring a [host] of health benefits to your body and mind.
{{1}}让你感到与你所关心的人亲近并{{2}}之外，拥抱原来还能给你的身心带来{{3}}健康益处。
At RoMan Manufacturing, a maker of electrical transformers and welding equipment that his father cofounded in 1980, Robert Roth keeps a close eye on the age of his nearly 200 workers.
罗曼制造公司是一家生产变压器和焊接设备的企业，由罗伯特·罗斯的父亲于1980年参与创办，在这里，罗斯密切关注着他手下近200名工人的年龄。
believes that it is important to keep a close eye on the age of his workers.
认为密切关注工人的年龄很重要。
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In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action, and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken’s habitat.
他们尤其呼吁与西部各州政府以及私人土地所有者建立更紧密的合作——西部各州政府常常对联邦的行动感到不安，而私人土地所有者控制着估计95%的草原鸡栖息地。
v. 缩小，弥合（差距、缺口）大纲外5 次
But even if you cannot close the gap, maybe you can close others, and doing so would be to the benefit of all concerned.
但即使你无法弥补这一缺口，也许可以弥补其他缺口，而这样做将使所有相关方受益。
But even if you cannot close the gap, maybe you can close others, and doing so would be to the benefit of all concerned.
但即使你无法弥补这一缺口，也许可以弥补其他缺口，而这样做将使所有相关方受益。
This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.
根据即将发表在《心理科学》杂志上的一篇论文那令人沮丧的开头，这造成了“一个悖论”：招收第一代大学生，却眼看着他们中的许多人失败，这意味着高等教育“一直在复制并扩大而非缩小”基于社会阶层的成就差距。
But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.
但这篇文章实际上相当乐观，因为它概述了解决这一问题的一个可能方案，提出一种方法（包括一个时长一小时、几乎零成本的项目）可以将第一代大学生与其他学生之间的成就差距（以成绩等因素衡量）缩小63%。
They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.
他们引用了几位作者以往的研究，以表明要缩小成就差距，就必须缩小这方面的差距。
v./n. 结束1 次
close
结束；关闭
义项待标注5 次
It can be hard for scientists to make the case because our work is complex, often takes place behind closed doors and does not always lend itself to easy interpretation or explanation.
科学家们可能很难为此辩护，因为我们的工作很复杂，往往在幕后进行，而且并不总是易于解读或解释。
close in on
逼近
“They bought the seedlings and closed them down,” complained Paul Arnold, a partner at San Francisco-based Switch Ventures, putting an end to businesses that might one day turn into competitors.
“他们买下这些幼苗，然后把它们关掉了，”总部位于旧金山的Switch Ventures的合伙人保罗·阿诺德抱怨道，这样就终结了那些有朝一日可能成为竞争对手的企业。
However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a “buy and kill” tactic to simply close them down.
然而，批评者表示，大公司利用此类交易，在最具威胁的潜在竞争对手的业务有机会发展壮大之前就将其买下，有时这是“收购并扼杀”策略的一部分，直接将其关闭。
Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court’s liberals, ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.
大法官安东尼·肯尼迪与首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨以及最高法院的自由派法官一致裁定，该州过于逼近联邦的权力范围。