| 单词 | close to home |
| 释义 | close to homeclose to home a) EMBARRASSEDif a remark or criticism is close to home, it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is likely to be true 〔说话或批评〕因击中要害而令人尴尬的 His comments struck unpleasantly close to home. 他的话切中要害，让人不舒服。 b) PERSONALLY/YOURSELFif something unpleasant happens close to home, you are directly affected by it 〔令人不愉快的事〕发生在自己身边的，直接影响到自身的 It’s one thing seeing riots on TV, but when they happen so close to home it’s a different matter. 在电视上看到暴乱是一回事，暴乱发生在你身边又是另一回事。 Examples from the Corpus close to home• And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.• For a third it might be a school close to home.• It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.• Some commute long distances while others work close to home.• Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.• She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.• Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.• Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population. → close to home at close2(7) |
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