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almost 音标:['ɔ:lməust]

ad. 几乎, 差不多
◆记忆方法一:
联想方式:al都是;most摸石头
大水来了 我们几乎都是摸石头过河
◆记忆方法二:
联想方式:al都是;most摸石头
记忆方法:大水来了 我们几乎都是摸石头过河
  • 副词almost与nearly用法比较与辨析

    副词almost与nearly用法比较与辨析

    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。
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.
 

In almost every human language, there is a way to say, "Thank you!"
在每一种人类语言中,都有“谢谢”!


The ball rolled so near the hole, it almost fell in.
这个球滚到离洞很近的地方,差一点就进了。


He almost reached the diamonds.
他差一点就挖到钻石了。


The toy almost choked the baby to death.
这个熊孩子差点被玩具噎死。

The fumes almost choked me.

烟雾几乎把我呛死.


※Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is , the more difficult is it to bring it  home.
※Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; great man are almost always bad man… There is no worse heresy than that the office sactifies the holder of it.Lord Acton, British historian 权力导致腐败,绝对权力绝对导致腐败。伟人几乎都不是完人……再也没有比神化掌权者更坏的异端邪说了。英国历史学家 阿克顿爵士
※To live long is almost everyone's wish, but to live well is the ambitiion of a few. 活得长几乎是每个人的愿望,可是生活得好只是少数人的志气。
※Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. 完全的理解有时几乎会使乐趣消失.

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