His footsteps receded and they heard a distant door slam.

费尔奇的脚步声渐渐隐，听见远处传来猛烈的关声。

No longer. Even before the pandemic shut the world's bars, beer-drinking was on the slide, in part owing to health-conscious millennials bingeing less often.

时过境迁。甚至在疫情让世界各地的酒吧关之前，喝啤酒的人数就在下滑，部分原因是有健康意识的千禧一代不再那么频繁地饮酒狂欢。

Sophie thought she closed the door more loudly than usual.

苏菲感到，她今天关的声音比平常都大。

There's public hospitals shutting down, and shelves in pharmacies are sparsely stocked.

公立医院关，药店的货架上只有零星的药品。

No way. I'm shutting it down, pronto.

没儿 我马上就让它关大吉。

Even before the pandemic shut the world's bars, beer-drinking was on the slide, in part owing to health-conscious millennials bingeing less often.

甚至在疫情让世界各地的酒吧关之前，喝啤酒的人数就在下滑，部分原因是有健康意识的千禧一代不再那么频繁地饮酒狂欢。

During the actual writing of such a scene (door closed) , the thought of making her laugh—or cry—is in the back of my mind.

具体写到这个段落的时候(关独自写作），让她笑——或是哭——的想法会在我头脑中浮现。

Sadly, much of what we heard from President Trump throughout this senseless shutdown has been full of misinformation and even malice.

不幸的是，在这段毫无意义的政府关期间，我从特统那里听到的大部分言论都充满了误导信息，甚至充满恶意。

But when I was a teenager, the coal mines and the steelworks closed, and the entire area was devastated.

但在我十几岁的时候，煤矿和钢铁厂都关了，整个地区都被毁了。

But the Teamsters, which represent their unionized drivers, say that they have been notified that the company is shutting down.

但代表司机的Teamsters(卡车司机工会)表示，已接到通知称公司即将关。

I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight.

我看到许多学生每天吃完晚饭就图书馆，直到深更半夜图书馆关才回来。

To her dismay she found the shop closed.

令她沮丧的是，商店关了。

Me too. How late does the library stay open?

我也是，图书馆什么时候关？

People can still shop in the open stores and online.

你仍然可以网上以及未关的店里购物。

I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings.

我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关器。

There are currently 1,100 of these in the U.S. But experts are predicting that around 300 of them will close over the next five years, when larger stores like Macy's, JCPenney or Sears closed and dozens have.

目前美国有1100家商场，但是专家估计有300家将会在接下来的5年内关，Macy's, JCPenney or Sears这样的商场就位列其中。

What has caused more individual shutdowns of Broadway than any other event?

是什么原因导致百老汇关时间如此独特？

The U.S. presidents annual State of the Union speech has been called off for now and the reason concerns the political fight taking place over the government's partial shutdown.

美国统的年度国情咨文演讲暂时取消，原因是政府部分关引发政治斗争。

Thousands of stores closed across America last year.

年，美国各地有数千家商店关。

It only shut its doors when coronavirus came to town.

只有当冠状病毒疫情期间，餐厅才关。