by the close of
基本解释
- 到…末期；在…結束時
英汉例句
- By the close of the next day it was nine times subscribed.
到第二天結束時則已經達到九倍。 在10月16日將會有一小部分出售給散戶投資者。 - Consider that in 1990, roughly half the global population lived on less than $1 a day; by 2007, the proportion had shrunk to 28 percent -- and it will be lower still by the close of 2010.
看看1990年的時候，大約一半全球人口的日均生活費用少於1美元；而到2007年，該項比率已經縮減到28%——到2010年末它還會更低。 - At the time of this writing (November 2007)Apple had sold a whopping 100 million iPods, and is on track to ship more than 200 million iPods by the end of 2008 and 300 million by the close of 2009.
在寫這本書時（2007年11月）蘋果已經售出了超過1億台iPod,這個數字在2008年末有望超過2億，竝在2009年結束時超過三億。 - To reduce costs, G.M.plans to close more factories and cut more jobs by the end of two thousand eleven.
- I don't believe we'll-- I'll--come close to scratching the surface of what I would enjoy doing, by the time I've died.
我不能相信-,我能推測死時,自己會對什麽感興趣。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選 - He saw that if you take the atomic mass of chlorine, 2 add it to the atomic mass of iodine, divide by two, you get something that is really close to the atomic mass of bromine.
他看到，如果你將氯的原子質量，加上碘的原子質量，除以，得到的數將與,溴的原子質量很接近。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態化學導論課程節選 - Its IPO shares were up 33% by the close of their first day of trading.
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