【close音标】 英[kləʊz] 美[kloʊz]
【单词释义】 close是什么意思：
vt.关；结束；使靠近
vi.关；结束；关闭
adj.紧密的；亲密的；亲近的
adv.紧密地
n.结束
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] closes
[单词现在分词] closing
[单词过去式] closed
[单词过去分词] closed
[比较级] closer [最高级] closest
【关联词/派生词】
closely adv.接近地；紧密地；严密地
closure n.（永久的）关闭；倒闭；封锁；结束 vt.使结束；使终止
【close形近词/近似词】
disclose vt.公开；揭露；使显露
those adj.&pron. 那些
diagnose v.诊断；判断(问题的原因)
whose pron.谁的
【常用短语】
close down 关闭；停止播音
close up 关门停业；愈合；靠近
【单词例句】
◇ He was just about to make her an offer, when, close by the maiden, he saw a pod, with a withered flower hanging at the end.
当他正打算向她求婚的时候，看到这花儿的近旁有一个豆荚——豆荚的尖端上挂着一朵枯萎了的花。
---- The Butterfly
◇ But when she caught sight of the frog, she closed the door and seated herself again at the table.
但是当她看到那只青蛙时，便关上门又坐回她的位子上。
---- The Frog Prince
◇ If you are interviewing candidates, try screening for applicants whose response most closely matches number four. And if you are interviewing for a job do your homework and try answering the "So why do you want to work here?" question as close as you can to number four and be ready when the interviewer says, "How much salary do you need and when can you start?"
如果你正在面试求职者，试着挑选出回答最接近第四种的人。如果你正在面试找工作，先做好功课，尽可能按照第四种答案去回答，然后做好准备，回答面试者“想要多少薪水？何时能入职？”的问题。
---- Why do you want to work here?
◇ When the prince approached the thorn hedge, it was nothing but large, beautiful flowers that separated by themselves, allowing him to pass through without harm, but then behind him closed back into a hedge.
所以当王子来到树篱丛时，他看到的全是盛开着美丽花朵的灌木，他很轻松地就穿过了树篱。随着他在前面走，身后树篱又密密地合拢了。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ As soon as our shuttle got close to the theme park by the freeway, everyone came to life and put on cloth sneakers in advance for an outing.
我们走高速公路的来往穿梭巴士一接近主题公园，大家都活跃了起来，并且提前穿上了布鞋，做好这趟外出旅游的准备。
---- A Unique Theme Park
◇ "Oh, very badly indeed!" she replied. "I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through. I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue. It has hurt me so much!"
“啊，不舒服极了！”公主说，“我差不多整夜没合上眼！天晓得我床上有件什么东西？我睡到一块很硬的东西上面，弄得我全身发青发紫，这真怕人！”
---- The Real Princess
◇ "The percentage of adults who do not believe smoking causes stroke are for example in China as high as 73 percent, for heart attacks 61 percent of adults in China are not aware that smoking increases the risk," Bettcher said. "We aim to close this gap."
贝彻说：“比如在中国，有多达73%的成年人不相信吸烟会导致中风，61%的成年人不知道吸烟会增加患心脏病的风险。我们要缩小这个差距。”
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ But while you zap your food, you may wonder how close you can safely stand next to a microwave, and whether any radiation could escape from the device and potentially harm you.
但是当你用微波炉加热食物的时候，你可能会想知道站在微波炉旁边多远才安全，以及设备是否会泄漏一些辐射并伤害到你。
---- Is It Safe to Stand in Front of Microwave Ovens?
◇ What drives you crazy more than anything, then, is haste - but unexpected change is a close second. In fact, unlike most of us, you're not particularly fond of surprises, even if they're pleasant ones.
那么，当然不会有什么比急躁更让你发疯的事了。实际上，和大多数人不同，即便是非常令人开心的事也不能给你带来太多惊喜。
---- The most unbearable thing for the twelve zodiac signs
◇ There is much more to color than meets the eye. Strangely enough, us humans have a close emotional bond with the visible light aspect of the electromagnetic spectrum, a bond so strong it can easily make us feel stressed out with a raised heart rate or leave us with a warm and fuzzy sense of satisfaction.
色彩，远不止我们眼睛看上去的那么简单。但奇怪的是，我们人类与这些电磁波谱上的可见光，竟有着说不请道不明的情感联系，这种联系如此强烈，以至于它很容易能让我们心率加快甚至感到压力，又或者让我们有一种温暖而模糊的满足感。