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词语释义

英 ['ɔːlməʊst] 美 ['ɔlmost]

adv. 差不多，几乎

单词分析：这些副词均有“大约，差不多”之意。
almost指在程度上相差很小，差不多。
nearly与almost含义基本相同，侧重指数量、时间或空间上的接近。
about常可分almost和nearly换用，但about用于表示时间、数量的“大约”时，实际数量可能多也可能少。
approximately多用于书面语，指精确度接近某个标准以致误差可忽略不计。
around多用于非正式场合，常见于美国英语。
roughly指按精略估计，常代替about。

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英英释义

Adverb:

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but;"the job is (just) about done"
"the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"
"we"re almost finished"
"the car all but ran her down"
"he nearly fainted"
"talked for nigh onto 2 hours"
"the recording is well-nigh perfect"
"virtually all the parties signed the contract"
"I was near exhausted by the run"
"most everyone agrees"

单词词源

中文词源

almost 几乎

组合词。al同all, 全部的。most, 大多数的。

英语词源

almost

almost: [OE] Almost is simply a combination of all and most. In Anglo-Saxon times, and up until the 17th century, it meant ‘mostly all’ or ‘nearly all’ (thus one could say ‘My best friends are almost men’, meaning most of them are men); but already by the 13th century the modern sense ‘nearly, not quite’ was well in place.
=> all, most

almost (adv.)

Old English eallmæst "nearly all, for the most part," literally "mostly all;" see all + most. Modern form from 15c.

词态变化

权威造句

1. The representatives almost came to blows at a meeting.

代表们在一次会议上差点动起手来。

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2. It's almost a foregone conclusion that you'll get what you want.

你将得到你想要的，这几乎是确定无疑的。

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3. By 1973, this gap had narrowed almost to vanishing point.

到1973年，这一差距已缩小到几乎为零。

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4. Almost ninety per cent of all rapes and violent assaults went unreported.

几乎90%的强奸案和暴力侵害案都没有报案。

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5. He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object.

他认为婴儿几乎就是毫无生命的物体。

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近反义词

about

nearing

nearly

towards

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