as near as

基本解释

The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself
这位妇女尽可能地靠近孩子，甚至自己也想钻进箱子里去
As near as a foreigner like me can understand it, the basis of face seems to be worry about other peoples' opinions.
几乎像我这样的外国人都能理解，面子观念的基础就是过于在意别人的看法。
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”.
我们得知，“论文“已由两位教授作了些许编辑，以使小说显得“尽可能接近蚂蚁们自身观察这些事件的方式”。

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.
史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。
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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.
也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。
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As near as we can tell, deleveraging has a long way to go, say seven years.
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