1. almost [nearly] 都可用来修饰不定代词、形容词、副词、动词、介词短语等，此时两者常可换用。如：
My car almost [nearly] stood still because of a traffic block. 我的车子因为交通阻塞而几乎动弹不得。
I lost my concentration and almost [nearly] drove into a bridge. 我走神了，驾车时几乎撞上了一座桥。
It is almost [nearly] late for you to catch the last bus. 天晚了，你快赶不上末班公共汽车了。
With so much loud music, conversation was almost [nearly] impossible. 音乐声那么大，几乎没法交谈。
单词：nearly的近义词、反义词、形近词辨析
almost/nearly
The newsreel had almost finished when I got to the cinema.我到电影院时，新闻片差不多演完了。
The Great Pyramid is nearly 5000 years old.大金字塔有近5000年的历史。
<辨析>两者都可解作“差不多”，“几乎”，当它们与动词、副词、形容词和名词连用时，常用通用，如上述两句中的 almost 和 nearly 可相互替换。
这两个词比较起来其含意略有不同，almost 所表示的“差不多”程度比 nearly 还要更接近一些。如：
We're almost there.我们马上就要到了。
We're nearly there.我们快到了。
nearly 不能与 no,none,nothing,nobody,never 连用，遇到这种场合，可以用 almost。试译：
几乎没有一个人歇过一下。
误：Nearly no one took any rest.
正：Almost no one took any rest.
almost 不可被 not 修饰，如不说 not almost 或 almost not；表示“几乎不”，可用 hardly。试译。
他几乎不会说英语。
误：He could almost not speak English.
正：He could hardly speak English.
与单词：nearly 相关的例句或者名人名言
The ball nearly went in!
那个球差点就进了！
I've taken my old suitcase to nearly every country in the world.
我已经带着我的旧手提箱几乎走遍了世界上所有国家。
This road seems endless - are we nearly there yet?
这条路看起来没有尽头啊，我们还没到吗？
We've been waiting for you nearly two hours.
我们等了你将近两个钟头。
※People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little. 人们埋怨的常常是太少,而不是没有.
