In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.
1924年，美国国家研究委员会派两名工程师去监督一系列实验，地点是芝加哥附近一家名为霍桑工厂的电话零件工厂。
A year ago the end seemed near.
一年前，它们的终结似乎已经迫在眉睫。
That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.
这就是我们推出《Arc》这一新出版物的原因之一，它专注于近未来。
In one series of studies, researchers instructed Chicago-area commuters using public transportation to strike up a conversation with someone near them.
在一系列研究中，研究人员指示芝加哥地区使用公共交通的通勤者与附近的人开始交谈。
is unlikely to diminish in the near future.
在不久的将来不太可能减少。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。