Close-run
a. （比赛等）势均力敌的, 难分高下的
📖 牛津释义
close-run
adj [usu attrib 通常作定语]
(of a race, competition, etc) won by a very small margin （指竞赛、 竞争等）险胜
The election was a ,close-run `thing. 这次竞选仅获险胜.
🧩 词语组成解析
close
[kloz]
adj. 紧密的;亲密的;亲近的;
vt. 关;结束;使靠近;
vi. 关;结束;关闭;
adv. 紧密地;
n. 结束;
clud(shut)→关闭；结束；接近的；亲近的；准确的
run
[rʌn]
vt.& vi. 跑;移动;（使）流动;
n. 奔跑;行程;放映期;一系列;
vi. （工作等）进行;延续;逃跑;行驶;
vt. 使奔跑;使…快速移动;运行，经营;划;
adj. 融化的;浇铸的;跑的筋疲力尽的;
🗣️ 情景例句
Mary, what's your favorite sport?
玛丽，你最喜欢什么运动？
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
户枢不蠹。
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
长期以来，历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。