| 词汇 | nearly |
| 释义 | nearly adverb uk /ˈnɪə.li/ us /ˈnɪr.li/ A2 almost, or not completely: 几乎，差不多，将近 It's been nearly three months since my last haircut.从我上次理发到现在已经快3个月了。 I've nearly finished that book you lent me.你借给我的那本书我快要读完了。 She's nearly as tall as her father now.她现在几乎和她父亲一样高了。 They'd eaten nearly everything.他们已经把东西吃得所剩无几了。 It was so funny - we nearly died laughing.太有意思了——我们差点儿笑死。 not completely almostWe need to hurry up - it's almost time to go. nearlyIt's nearly midnight. nearHe was near tears (= almost crying). aboutAre you about ready to leave? all butThe concert was all but over by the time we arrived. well-nighIt was well-nigh impossible to get a person on the phone these days. not nearly as/so C1 a lot less: 远非，差得多，少得多 She's not nearly as beautiful as you said she was.她远没有你形容的那么漂亮。 not nearly enough much less than you want or need: 远不够 There's not nearly enough food for all these people!食物远不够这么多人吃！ The under-18s constitute nearly 25% of the town's population. Customs officers have seized nearly a ton of heroin destined for New York.海关官员缴获了将近一吨要发往纽约的海洛因。 I'm nearly ready - just give me a couple of minutes.我快准备好了——再给我两三分钟就可以。 It was such a hassle trying to get my bank account changed that I nearly gave up.更换银行账号真是麻烦，我差点都想放弃了。 They were finally reconciled with each other, after not speaking for nearly five years.他们差不多有5年的时间连话都不说，但最后终于重归于好。 Almost a hop, skip, and a jumpidiom about almost as good asidiom as much asidiom be on the way to somethingidiom going on intent more more or lessidiom much scant strike sub that was close!idiom to the brink of something to/for all intents and purposesidiom up to (doing) somethingidiom virtual way GrammarAlmost or nearly? We use almost and nearly to refer to the progress of things, especially if we are measuring and counting things. In these examples, almost and nearly can both be used: … nearly | American Dictionarynearly adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈnɪər·li/ almost but not quite; close to: I’ve nearly finished that book you lent me. She’s nearly as tall as her father now. The problem isn’t nearly as bad as you think. Examples of nearlynearly As in past years, nearly threefourths of cases in 1999 were resolved through advice, referral, or brief services. Much of the semitic discourse at this time had, as we have seen, been in place for nearly half a century. Nearly half were formed with suffixes through derivation, and half through compounding. The similarity is so close that certain phrases are nearly interchangeable. The trimming is unusually steep and is nearly vertical. Of those 188, nearly three-quarters used either a standard traditional or a standard neutral preamble. Nearly all the plays he is known to have written after 1606 are touched by it. Nearly 40 % of students thought a more multicultural approach to content would be appealing. Nearly a generation later, things seem not to have altered greatly. During the 1991 - 2 fiscal year nearly 79 per cent of government fiscal resources were allocated to the recurrent budget. Nearly 2,000 students in 1957-58- approaching two-fifths of the total- were in the category of either" manual workers" or" non-manual, technical and supervisory workers". The longest diameter of the specimen is nearly 15 cm. Investment is forecast to fall by 6 per cent and employment by nearly 4 per cent. Among mammals by contrast, viviparity and lactation mean that the limiting resource is nearly always the female's rearing capacity. The proportion of married women falls to just over two in ten, and the proportion widowed rises to nearly two-thirds. See all examples of nearly These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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