nearly

1 “Sure, sure,” said Bunny hastily, leaping up and nearly knocking over the table.

2 Law enforcement officials — with the help of sniffer dogs — seized nearly six tons of methamphetamine hidden within a shipment of green squash this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

3 The experience was very strong, nearly a hallucination.

4 He felt perfectly confident; this wasn’t nearly as uncomfortable as using Floo powder.

5 The man lost his balance and nearly fell over.

6 I see her nearly every day.

7 The Oxyrhynchus hymn, written in Ancient Greek, dates from the late third century, making it nearly two thousand years old.

8 ‘For the last ten years we have been getting reports from nearly every country in the world about people disappearing mysteriously in the night. We had one only the other day from Panama...’

9 "Thief!" the secretary shrieked, nearly toppling off the stool as she grabbed her notebook.

10 Smoking is a harmful habit that negatively affects nearly every organ in the body.

吸烟是对全身几乎每个器官都有负面影响的坏习惯.

11 The audience was nearly all men.

观众几乎全都是男的。

12 At night we’d lie close, noses nearly touching, whispering and giggling.

13 He believed that he was one of the few physicians still seeing the nearly 6,000 persons then ill with the fever.

14 It nearly broke my heart to think of a loser like that taking our skiff and selling it for cash.

15 I nearly fell over a pile of stacked stones, bruised my shin, and sat on them instead.

16 ‘But there is no great hurry. Merry expects us some time the day after tomorrow; but that leaves us nearly two days more. We’ll halt at the first likely spot.’

17 Manet had been attending the University for nearly thirty years, and everyone knew him as the eternal E’lir.

18 She didn’t seem herself either; in fact, she looked nearly as anxious as Hermione.

19 It seems that nearly every advance in our civilization has some undesirable side effects.

20 “And now,” added Sir Palomides bitterly, “it is going to rain. Come to think of it, it nearly always does rain in these parts.”

1 将近

about along scarcely around toward close upon just on go on for almost towards rising scant something near touch

2 接近

close access approach advance vicinity contiguity propinquity sub- near towards come gain rise push border approximate trench verge on the way in the region of getting on for closely proximity closeness nearness nudge verge on border on coadjacent hot contiguous oncoming hard anear presence neighborhood neighbourhood approximation accession adjacency conversance conversancy join touch gather entrench put contact neighbor neighbour abut ad- go on for up adjacent about along fast nigh adit appulse on rising forby draw extend hang zero accede get a smell at get on toward move toward get hot

3 险些

most almost by a finger breadth by a hair within an inch of

4 间不容发地

by the skin of teeth

5 精密

close minute nice particular accurate exact strict precision refined circumspect nicely strictly refinement rigidity closeness nicety exactitude rigour

6 密切

osculatory close closely inseparably osculation osculate intimate umbilical oscular nearness solid gossipry

7 间不容发

near narrow hairbreadth hairsbreadth squeak hair's breadth a hair's breadth by a hair's breadth within a hair's breadth by the skin of teeth

8 近乎

much almost somewhere about

9 近

close short peri- near nearby anear anigh nearness juxta- pros-

10 大约

about circa thereabouts thereabout say

11 亲近

good close intimate home near advance recency

12 节俭地

charily

13 不完全

partial incomplete defective deficient sketchy scrappy partially

14 近似

almost similar near approximate proximal proximate come-and-go approach alliance affinity approximation propinquity border incline

15 勉强

near narrow stiff forced reluctant unwilling strained contrived constrained grudging labored begrudging uncheerful reluctantly grudgingly unwillingly forcedly loathly constraint reluctance unwillingness by constraint

16 亲密

old close near familiar thick intimate confidential bosom brotherly sisterly matey chummy pally intimately confidentially familiarly inly chummily intimacy familiarity closeness chumminess endear of bosom hand in glove be attached to tête-à-tête cosy boon hail-fellow-well-met cheek by jowl hob-and-nob pack friendly tight inner frequent tender inward heart-to-heart hand-in-hand homefelt closely good-fellowship community belonging inwardness gossipry in thick

17 接近地

close closely

18 几乎

most much almost half near virtually practically halfway well-nigh anear by a turn of a hair by the turn of a hair next to as much as pretty well just on next door to nothing short of come near within an inch of little short of wellnigh near- near to doing just about more or less as good as close on by inches nigh pretty much all but within an ace of as near as damn it to all intents and purposes getting on for all about just next next door fit three-quarters quasi- semi- short of not quite none too sub- come within an ace of close to going on anywhere near near enough close within an ace of doing within an ace of of doing nigh on damned near quasi like feckly by a hair near as damn it had like to have done

19 吝啬

mean small close cheap tight stingy grasping miserly illiberal parsimonious churlish chary penurious niggardly niggard mingy tightfisted cheeseparing closefisted hardfisted scrimpy parsimony penury screw pinch skimp scant narrow-fisted little near narrow managing skinny shabby paltry scaly sordid skimpy scanty screwy grudging penny-pinching ungenerous unhandsome costive pinchpenny close-fisted gripple skimpingly meanly stingily charily pikerism closeness nearness meanness smallness stinginess littleness miserliness illiberality chariness scrimp iron fisted careful miserable scotch nippy beggarly ironfisted chinchy hunks squeeze the eagle

20 吝啬地

skimpingly meanly stingily charily near

21 好容易

narrowly scarcely get

22 在附近

inby in by round nearby locally hereby about beside oneself round the corner

23 密切地

close closely

24 亲密地

intimately confidentially familiarly inly chummily hand in glove well heart to heart cheek by jowl near friendly closely

25 差不多

almost near virtually well-nigh something next to just about pretty much near enough little short of as near as damn it of a muchness scant about practically most near- sub- be much of a muchness close to as much as all but more or less pretty well close on anywhere near plus-minus some roughly similarly nigh come close to doing come close to to doing there or thereabouts more like come close of the order of in the order of in the region of borderline hardly much quite damned near in the ballpark around literally feckly half near as damn it about and about had like to have done there or thereabout just on

26 亲

parental pro-

27 细心

bright painful thoughtful considerate scrupulous circumspect chary deliberation

28 细心地

closely

29 差点儿

within an inch of within an ace of like

30 不完全地

partially

31 节俭

economic husband saving managing economical prudent scotch frugal provident chary abstemious housewifely forehanded charily thrift prudence husbandry frugality nearness chariness

32 亲近的

good close intimate near

33 勉强地

reluctantly grudgingly unwillingly forcedly loathly by constraint