nigh

1 And the paper’s bleak, vivid details — emphasizing that the end is truly nigh, and that it will be gruesome — clearly resonated.

2 No wonder there was no sense of the beginning of a slowdown: the experts were still saying that the end was nigh.

3 They stood not far from the Citadel-gate, in the sixth circle, nigh to its southward wall, and about them was a garden and a greensward with trees, the only such place in the City.

4 Smallholders who..have land nigh new estates.

5 More4 It has become a nigh- universal custom to report Afghanistan as if the western intervention there has been an utter calamity offering no upside whatsoever.

6 True Thrush is from his new album America and it's a merry-go-round of a scatty pop number that's nigh on impossible not to get swept up in.

7 They concluded that American literature had been well - nigh throttled at birth.

他们断言美国文学诞生之日便几乎被扼杀了.

8 Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

9 The citie of Tunis..hath no mountaines nigh vnto it.

10 A response article on Gawker said the piece’s nigh on masonic reverence was “stupid”.

11 The newspapers reported that there were wild, bearded men parading the streets in Austin, dressed in long robes and carrying big signs that read repent, the end is nigh.

12 The snow is melting. Spring is nigh.

13 Yet the end being nigh feels different now – hints of a dwindling empire are everywhere.

14 Even if the end is nigh, the evening has been great fun: "We have seen amazing things near death; and if the movies are dying, the long-running funeral has been a show to behold."

15 Huck's confidence in the human race was well - nigh obliterated.

哈克对于人类的信心几乎全部都丧失了.

16 Their host, a grizzled one-armed petty lord by the name of Harwood Stout, knew better than to refuse him, though by now his larders must be well nigh exhausted.

17 The girls are trying to whip up interest for a dance Suturday nigh.

女孩们想鼓励我们参加周六晚上的舞会.

18 If things continue like this, I will be nigh on invincible by the time I take my leave of Summerland.

19 “You want them in the Gift, that’s your folly, but see they don’t wander off or I’ll send you back their heads. Winter is nigh, I want no more mouths to feed.”

20 The end of the world may be nigh, but do we really care?...

世界末日可能不远了，但我们真的在意吗？

1 接近

close adjacent oncoming pushing closely approach proximity propinquity on near towards approximate adjoin by- hard access connection presence shadow forthcoming vicinity approximation juxtaposition adjacency contiguity with about around border verge touch neighbor gain access to draw near about the ear make advances to hard upon close upon gain be getting on for within an ace of on the way gain ground next door to in the vicinity going on for hard by in the region of immediate scant going on in immediately closeness rising cling nudge getting on for close to close on draw close verge on come up coadjacent up along fast nearly neighborhood accession adit appulse forby draw extend hang zero trench accede come put push get a smell at get on toward move toward get hot

2 至交

intimate

3 近的

close short near close-at-hand

4 靠近

by up on near approach close nearness outside hard cling close aboard nr proximity crowd hover within easy reach of close in within reach within reach of within easy reach close in on

5 左边的

left left-hand

6 接近地

close closely

7 几乎

most almost near nearly virtually practically well-nigh just about pretty much all but close on within an ace of as near as damn it to all intents and purposes getting on for like literally pretty well so much as just on as near as pretty nearly well nigh close about next to within an ace of doing within an ace of of doing close to more or less as good as feckly much half halfway quasi by a hair near as damn it had like to have done within an inch of

8 近亲的

near cognate germane

9 左侧的

portside left-hand nearside sinistral

10 左侧

portside left-hand nearside sinistral l.s. left

11 小气

niggardly small tight careful miserable contracted scaly stingy nippy miserly illiberal parsimonious small-minded penny-pinching niggard unhandsome costive cheeseparing carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted smallness parsimony

12 近亲

near cognate germane

13 近

close little commutable short near close-at-hand shortness toward close by

14 差不多

near plus-minus some most almost nearly roughly virtually similarly practically well-nigh come close to doing come close to to doing there or thereabouts close to just about pretty much more like all but come close more or less pretty well close on near enough of the order of in the order of in the region of

15 临近

imminent near approach proximity propinquity at hand

16 小气的

niggardly small tight careful miserable contracted scaly stingy nippy miserly illiberal parsimonious small-minded penny-pinching niggard unhandsome costive cheeseparing carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted

17 直接的

across-the-table hard direct primary dead immediate straightforward

18 接近的

close near adjacent

19 直接

across-the-table hard direct primary dead immediate straightforward straight