almost中文意思是几乎;差不多。almost是常用的程度副词,基本意思是“几乎,差不多”,强调差一点,缺一点。引申还可作“实际〔质〕上”“简直”解。
1.almost是常用的程度副词,基本意思是“几乎,差不多”,强调差一点,缺一点。引申还可作“实际〔质〕上”“简直”解。
2.almost可用于修饰动词、形容词、副词、名词、代词、数词或介词等,有时还可用来代替全句。almost不能与not连用,但可与no, none, nobody, nothing, never等否定词连用,表示“几乎,差不多”。
3.为了避免意义含混不清或者不合逻辑, almost常常紧接在它所修饰词之前。修饰动词时一般置于主要动词之前,但要放在系动词、助动词和情态动词之后。almost不能置于句末。
4.当描述即将达到目标或者接近于某数据等时,人们更习惯于用almost去表达“接近,但不完全一样”的意思,使得陈述的内容没有那么精确,明确。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
6.They had almost reached the boat when a figure shot past them.
他们差不多快到船边时,一个人影从他们旁边飞奔而过。
7.This, I am sorry to say, is almost entirely wishful thinking.
我很遗憾,这几乎完全是一厢情愿的想法。
8.Almost 80 percent of the state's residents were born elsewhere.
该州居民中几乎有80%出生在异地。
9.Instead of moving at his usual stately pace, he was almost running.