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When a race, a game, or a vote is close-run, the winner only just wins. The two sides are almost even, and only a little bit — a few points, a few votes, a short space — decides it. British speakers use this a lot about elections and sport. You will also hear “a close-run thing,” meaning it nearly went the other way. Americans more often say a close race, or they only just won. It is ordinary English, just more British than American. It is about the result being tight, not about people running near each other, and not about shutting anything.
勝負非常接近的、險勝的
組成close (near; with little gap) + run (a race or contest).
同家族的字
- close-foughtsame close: the contest is almost even
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
close-runadj
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Hotly contested; won or achieved only by a small margin.
- We won the election, but it was a close-run thing.
- And it had been a close-run thing for many of the nearest - perhaps too close. Councillor Renee Spector, a senior member of Birmingham City Council planning committee, told the local press that the accident might force "a rethink" about the way it considered future applications. "There is a case for a buffer zone, but the problem is that land is at such a premium it is difficult to insist on a large distance between houses and railway lines," she said.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。