almost

【发音】

美 /'ɔlmost/ 英 /'ɔːlməʊst/

【翻译】

1. adv.几乎，差不多

   英释:nearly, but not completely or not quite

【短语】

1. almost all : 几乎处处

【例句】

1. Have you almost finished?

   你差不多完成了吗？

2. Supper’s almost ready.

   晚饭就要做好了。

3. It was almost midnight.

   午夜将至。

4. Almost nothing was done to improve the situation.

   几乎没有采取什么措施来改善这个情况。

5. The story is almost certainly true.

   这故事几乎肯定是真实的。

6. He’s almost as old as I am.

   他差不多跟我一样大。

【真题例句】

1. (2017.6 • CET4 • • 阅读理解)...she was correct almost every time...

2. (2017.6 • CET4 • • 阅读理解)...The phrase almost completes itself: midlife crisis...

3. (2017.6 • CET4 • 第三套 • 阅读理解)...almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper—including facial tissue and kitchen roll―to save money...

4. (2017.6 • CET4 • • 阅读理解)...there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago...

5. (2017.6 • CET4 • 第二套 • 阅读理解)...almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change...

6. (2017.6 • CET4 • • 听力题)...he came home from school almost in tears...

7. (2017.6 • CET4 • • 阅读理解)...A handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detail—and after years of research...

8. (2017.6 • CET4 • • 听力题)...People would come in out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude...

9. (2017.6 • CET4 • 第二套 • 阅读理解)...A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life...

10. (2017.12 • CET4 • 第二套 • 阅读理解)...almost in a dream...

【同、近义词】

1. adv.差不多，几乎

   nearly/most/virtually/practically/feckly/