This was not the single-tax, but it was the nearest approach to it under present conditions.

这不是单一税， 但它是目前条件下最接近的方法。

Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me.

然后，他干巴巴地笑了笑， 这是他最接近大笑的方式， 他把它扔给我。

The press was an inferior pulpit; an anonymous schoolmaster; a cheap boarding-school but it was still the nearest approach to a career for the literary survivor of a wrecked education.

报刊是劣等的讲坛；一位匿名的校长；一所便宜的寄宿学校，但它仍然是受破坏教育的文学幸存者最接近职业的途径。

It will be seen that no sentence can be made up without at least one word which denotes a universal. The nearest approach would be some such statement as 'I like this'.

将会看到，如果没有至少一个表示普遍性的词，就无法构成任何句子。最近的方法是像“我喜欢这个”这样的陈述。

Where the soil happens to be composed of the finer qualities of glacial detritus and the water is not in excess, the nearest approach is made by the vegetation to that of the lake-meadow.

在土壤恰好由更优质的冰川碎屑组成且水不过量的地方，植被最接近湖草甸。

Copernicus and Galileo had broken many professorial necks about 1600; Columbus had stood the world on its head towards 1500; but the nearest approach to the revolution of 1900 was that of 310, when Constantine set up the Cross.

哥白尼和伽利略在 1600 年左右打断了许多教授的脖子；哥伦布在 1500 年让世界颠倒过来；但最接近 1900 年革命的是 310 年的革命，当时君士坦丁设立了十字架。

She had seen poverty and misfortune in her life; but in a community where poor thrifty Mrs. Hawes and the industrious Ally represented the nearest approach to destitution there was nothing to suggest the savage misery of the Mountain farmers.

她在生活中见过贫穷和不幸；但是在一个贫穷节俭的霍伊斯太太和勤劳的艾莉代表最接近贫困的社区里，没有任何迹象表明山区农民的野蛮苦难。