重點講解:
1. go up
(價格、數量或水平)上漲,上升;
eg. Interest rates went up...
利率上調了。
The cost has gone up to $1.95 a minute.
該項費用已上漲到每分鐘1。95美元。
Prices have gone up 61 percent since deregulation.
價格自解除管制以來已經上漲了61%。
2. close to
接近于(某數量或距離);
eg. Sisulu spent close to 30 years in prison.
西蘇盧在監獄里度過了將近30年的時光。
eg. Close to 50,000 people took part.
近5萬人參加。
eg. I'm close to five pounds lighter ( heavier ) than I was last winter.
我比去年冬天時要減輕 ( 加重 ) 將近五磅。