重点讲解:
1. go up
(价格、数量或水平)上涨,上升;
eg. Interest rates went up...
利率上调了。
The cost has gone up to $1.95 a minute.
该项费用已上涨到每分钟1。95美元。
Prices have gone up 61 percent since deregulation.
价格自解除管制以来已经上涨了61%。
2. close to
接近于(某数量或距离);
eg. Sisulu spent close to 30 years in prison.
西苏卢在监狱里度过了将近30年的时光。
eg. Close to 50,000 people took part.
近5万人参加。
eg. I'm close to five pounds lighter ( heavier ) than I was last winter.
我比去年冬天时要减轻 ( 加重 ) 将近五磅。