【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】
whose pron.谁的
diagnose v.诊断；判断(问题的原因)
those adj.&pron. 那些
disclose vt.公开；揭露；使显露
【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】
◇ The rabbit went to the fox's house. He looked in through the window and saw the fox lying in bed with his eyes closed.
---- The fox is dead
◇ Then she kneeled down and, crying out to God the Lord, she prayed. Suddenly an angel appeared. He closed a head gate, so that the moat dried up, and she could walk through.
她跪到地上向上帝祈祷。忽然，有个天使向她走来，在水中筑起一道堤坝。这样一来，壕中的水干了，姑娘就可以走到果园去了。
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of perched on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso. She was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots.
近看这个小女孩时，我注意到她几乎是完全被放在轮椅里，意识到她没有胳膊和腿，只剩下了头部、脖子以及躯干了。她穿着一件小白裙，上面还有红色的圆点花纹。
---- World of Smiles
◇ One day the girl left the door to the cage open. The larger and stronger of the two birds flew from the cage. The girl was so frightened that he would fly away. As he flew close, she grasped him wildly.
一天，女孩敞开了鸟笼的小门。那只较大较壮的鸟儿飞出了鸟笼。女孩非常害怕鸟儿会飞走。鸟儿飞近时，她死命将它抓住。
---- Best Way to Keep Love is to Give It Wings
◇ Tierno says all that gunk becomes "significant" in as little as a week. And unclean bedding still exposes you to materials that can trigger the sniffing and sneezing, since the microbes are so close to your mouth and nose that you're almost forced to breathe them in.
缇艾诺说，在短短一周的时间里，这些污物就会变得“严重”起来。不清洁的床单被罩会让你暴露在这些物质中，从而引发鼻炎和喷嚏，因为微生物离你的嘴和鼻子太近了，你几乎是被迫将它们吸进去。
---- How often you should wash your bed sheets?
◇ When sitting in a quiet theatre or a packed train, stifling a sneeze by holding the nose and closing the mouth may seem like the courteous option
当你坐在安静的剧院或拥挤的列车上时，用捂鼻子或紧闭嘴巴的方法把喷嚏憋回去似乎是个有礼貌的选择。
---- Don't hold in a sneeze, It could be the death of you
◇ In 2007, University of Florida zoologist Kent Vliet actually proved that the animals do sob while snacking. But because crocodiles eat while in the water—making a study of their meal-time tears difficult—he studied their close relatives, caimans and alligators, who might dine on dry land.
2007年，佛罗里达大学的动物学家肯特·弗利特证明了动物在进食的时候确实会哭泣。但因为鳄鱼是在水中进食的，研究它们进食期间是否会落泪比较困难，所以弗利特就研究了鳄鱼的近亲凯门鳄和短吻鳄，它们会在旱地上进食。
---- Where does the expression 'crocodile tears'
◇ New Zealanders work an average of 1,752 hours a year, making them close to average compared with their OECD peers. Germans spend the least amount of time working annually, closely followed by Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, while Mexicans, Koreans and Costa Ricans clock the most.
新西兰人每年平均工作1752个小时，接近经济合作与发展组织其他成员国的平均水平。德国人每年的平均工作时间是最短的，其次是丹麦人、挪威人和荷兰人，而墨西哥人、韩国人和哥斯达黎加人的工作时间是最长的。
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ In order to open one side of your nose and close the other, your body inflates tissue with blood in your nose.
为了打开一边的鼻孔、关闭另一边，你的身体会让鼻子里的组织充血膨胀。
---- Only One Side of Your Nose Gets Blocked at a Time
◇ They get their name because you can feel your pulse there, and the reason you can do that is because vessels are so close to the edge of your skin that one can easily hear or feel the flow of blood.
之所以叫脉搏点是因为在这些地方可以感受到脉搏，而且因为这里的血管和皮肤最近，人们可以轻易地听到或感触到血液的流动。