2015年1月9日 星期五

close (ROAD), close in, closer to home



DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France (Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police sealed off a small...
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Much as Mark Zuckerberg would like to add China's billion-plus residents to Facebook, his most pressing reason for learning Mandarin was far closer to home.

close to home
having a direct personal effect on you Her novel about a teenager's drug addiction hit a little too close to 
home for my taste.
Usage notes: usually said about something that upsets or embarrasses you, and often used with the verb hit as in the example
Related vocabulary: hit home

cathedral close


Friends who had taken his finances in hand in the 1970s helped make him comfortably well off. In addition to the yacht Morning Cloud, Heath owned a modest terrace house in Wilton Street, Belgravia, and another, much more magnificent and dating from Queen Anne, in Salisbury's Cathedral Close.


close (ROAD) Show phonetics
noun [C] UK
a road, usually with private houses, which vehicles can only enter from one end:
He lives at 83 Barker Close.




close
An enclosed place, especially land surrounding or beside a cathedral or other building.


close in1



1Come nearer to someone being pursued:the police were closing in on them
1.1Gradually surround, especially with the effect ofhindering movement or vision:the weather has now closed in so an attempt on the summit is unlikely
1.2(Of days) get successively shorter with theapproach of the winter solstice:November was closing in

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