20 approach to; close on; close to; close upon; come near to; come close to

● 本组词组均意为“接近于”。

● approach to动介型，由“靠近”引申而来。如：These machines approach nearest to the requirements of the standard.（这些机器最接近需求的标准。）The wind is approaching to a gale.（这风跟暴风差不多。）This reply approaches to an absolute denial.（这个答复差不多等于完全否认。）The loan of the factory has approached to eighty million yuan.（那座工厂的贷款已近8千万元。）

● close on; close to; close upon均为形容词词组，后可接人、物、数量、时间、年岁等，它们常作表语。如：The church is close to our college.（教堂就在我们学院附近。）The moon is much close to us than any other planets.（月球比任何其他行星离我们都近得多。）Our new home is close to[on; upon] a park.（我们的新居靠近一个公园。）It was close upon midnight.（时间已临近午夜。）Close on[to] 1000 athletes participated in the tournament.（将近1000名运动员参加了比赛。）

● come near (to); come close to两者没什么区别，其中to均为介词，后接名词、ing分词、what从句等，一般不接表数量词语。如：Dark brown comes near to black.（深褐色近于黑色。）His surmise comes very near the truth.（他的推测近乎实际。）This book comes close to perfection.（这本书几乎完美无缺。）The boy came close to falling off the high wall.（这男孩差点儿从高墙上摔下来。）Your suggestion comes close to what we were looking for.（你的建议跟我们的要求很接近。）