as near as

基本解釋

The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself
這位婦女盡可能地靠近孩子，甚至自己也想鉆進(jìn)箱子里去
As near as a foreigner like me can understand it, the basis of face seems to be worry about other peoples' opinions.
幾乎像我這樣的外國人都能理解，面子觀念的基礎(chǔ)就是過于在意別人的看法。
The “thesis”, we are told, has been lightly edited by two professors to present the story “as near as possible to the way ants see such events themselves”.
我們得知，“論文“已由兩位教授作了些許編輯，以使小說顯得“盡可能接近螞蟻們自身觀察這些事件的方式”。

Everything else is across the ground. In basketball you go up a little bit, but not anywhere near as cool.
The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.
史詩也解釋并且映射了巴比倫王國的興起,它是古代近東繁盛的城市之一。
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There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.
也有很多古代近東故事,關(guān)于上帝用黏土造人;,我們看來上帝就像轉(zhuǎn)盤旁邊的陶藝工匠,造出許多小小的人類。
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As near as we can tell, deleveraging has a long way to go, say seven years.
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