There are few nations who are able to claim a closer bond.

们发现很少有国家能够像们这样宣称拥有如此紧密的联系。

Sophie closed her eyes and lay quite still.

苏菲合上眼睛，一动动地躺着。

Did you close the bolt of the door?

门闩插上了吗?

Since its introduction in 2009, the value of a Bitcoin has fluctuated from mere pennies to close to 1,000 U.S. dollars.

自从2009年面世以来，比特币的价值从几便士涨到1000美元。

Well, in that case, we can take you hang gliding withone of our experienced instructors. It’s the closest you can get to flying. ?

样的话，你可以和们最富经验的教练一起乘滑翔翼。这飞行的最简单方法。

In terms of tropical storms, sure, in terms of hurricanes, not even close.

就热带风暴来讲，确实如此。而就飓风而言，对或者至少尽然。

Select a few and become truly close to them.

择几个朋友，真正走近他们。

Later, she recalled, It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl.

后来，希拉里回忆说，第一次意识到，因为一个女孩，有些机会可能就会与无缘。

Nature is always close at hand in Provincetown.

普罗温斯敦四周都大自然。

Cut our losses and close the outlets? That's the MD's view.

减少损失并关闭销售点？这MD的观点。

But by all accounts the reel and the real Gregory Peck were close kin.

但人们说银幕上的格利高里·派克和现实中的格利高里·派克十分相近。

Yes, I'd like to close my account.

的，想销户。

So we can't be satisfied, not even close to satisfied.

所以们敢自满，远能自满。

This administration is committed to bringing those ties even closer.

这一届政府致力于让两国关系更加紧密。

Finally, figures close to the French government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization, for example, curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labor costs.

最终，些与法国政府联系紧密的大人物颇有微词：欧元区成员国应该同意使用一些财政和社会协调方案：例如，抑制企业税率或劳工成本的竞争。

In July, when Pakistan received a much needed bailout from the international monetary fund, it agreed to slash energy subsidies and raise electricity rates to help reduce the power sector's enormous debt which stands close to $7.5 billion.

今年 7 月，当巴基斯坦从国际货币基金组织获得急需的救助资金时，它同意削减能源补贴并提高电价，以帮助减少电力部门近 75 亿美元的巨额债务。

He'd even threatened to close the border.

他甚至威胁要关闭边境。

Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries sometimes drowned the noise of the instruments;these closed the procession.

接着乐队和一支狂热的信徒组成的大军。他们叫喊的声音，有时甚至掩盖了震耳欲聋的乐器声，游行队伍至此才算结束。

It signifies that the investigation is probably coming to a close.

这表明，调查可能即将结束。

Closing it down would be a disaster.

关闭诺丁汉将一场灾难。