The problem: many restaurants closed about this time.

问题是，这个时候很多餐馆都关门了。

Humans can see objects slightly closer — about 10 inches away from the eye.

人类可以看到更近的物体，大约到10英寸（0.25米）远。

Scarlett resumed her rocking and the still darkness of the warm night closed about them.

黑暗的夜雾浓密而温暖。

The dim gloom of drawn blinds and winter twilight closed about her.

从百叶窗透进来的幽暗的微光和冬天的暮色把她紧紧地包围着。

We begin to close in upon 'em about dusk.

黄昏时分，我们开始接近他们。

Her fingers closed about them, damp and hot, like worms.

她的手指紧紧握住它们， 又湿又热，像蠕虫一样。

Oakland is very close – about 11 miles, or 18 kilometers – to San Francisco.

奥克兰离旧金山很近——大约 11 英里或 18 公里。

You’re very close about your work, aren’t you?

【close，closeness】你对自己的工作闭口不谈，是不是？

And thousands of Confederate troops had been withdrawn from the lines close about the city to hurl themselves against them.

成千上万的联盟军已经从靠近城市的战斗线上撤去堵击他们了。

East of Maidenpool the hills rose wild, and the pines closed in about them like a host of silent grey-green soldiers.

女泉城东面的丘陵枝繁叶茂，松树从四面八方围拢，仿佛沉默的灰绿色士兵组成的军团。

I have never seen the gulls fly so close about the house or approach so fearlessly to human beings.

我从未见过海鸥在房子周围飞得如此之近， 或如此无畏地接近人类。

She pinned the wrapper close about her throat, lit her bedside candle and hurried down the dark stairs into the front hall.

她用披肩紧紧围着脖子，点起床头的蜡烛，然后迅速从黑暗的楼梯上下去，走到前面穿堂里。

The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.

美国邮政总局今日宣布，由于收入减少，他们正考虑在明年关闭约3700个邮局。

" Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you."

“你的生活四面紧逼，萧墙紧紧地攥着你，你却只能对着黑夜诉衷肠。”

When at length we enter the mountain gateway, the somber rocks seem aware of our presence, and seem to come thronging closer about us.

当我们终于进入山门时，阴暗的岩石似乎意识到了我们的存在，并且似乎在我们周围聚集得更近了。

Shaking his head patiently at her failure to understand his position he drew the Persian robe closer about him and came down a few steps.

看到她无法理解他的位置， 他耐心地摇了摇头， 他把波斯长袍拉近了一点， 然后走下几步。

US officials say a Russian fighter plane flew dangerously close about three meters to one of its navy reconnaissance aircraft operating over the Black Sea on Wednesday.

美国官员表示，周三，俄罗斯一架战斗机以近达3米的距离跟随正在黑海上空飞行的侦察机，举动异常危险。

The exclamation of surprise that almost burst from his lips was throttled in his throat by steel-thewed fingers that closed about his windpipe with the suddenness of thought.

几乎要从他嘴唇里迸发出来的惊讶惊呼被钢铁般的手指扼住了喉咙， 这些手指随着突然的想法关闭了他的气管。

I looked; I stirred the fire, and I looked again: but she drew her bonnet and her bandage closer about her face, and again beckoned me to depart.

我看了;我搅动火，又看了看：但她把帽子和绷带拉近了脸，再次示意我离开。

" Well, I should hate to lose your friendship, " she said primly and, with an attempt at disinterestedness, bent down to pull the blanket closer about Ella Lorena's head.

" 怎么说呢，我不想失去你的友情啊，" 思嘉一本正经地说。为了显得对这件事并不十分在意，她还低下头拉了拉毯子，把孩子的头围了围。