nearly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 差不多， 几乎，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had played football; he was as strong and nearly as large as a steer, and no steer ever bellowed more enormously.
-- He reflected (it was an international debate in which he was joined by a few and damned by many) that half a dozen generations nearly free from epidemics would produce a race so low in natural immunity that when a great plague, suddenly springing from almost-zero to a world-smothering cloud, appeared again, it might wipe out the world entire, so that the measures to save lives to which he lent his genius might in the end be the destruction of all human life.
-- From the Tozers he had heard almost religious praise of Dr. Adam Winter of Leopolis, a man of nearly seventy, the pioneer physician of Crynssen County, and to this sage he was fleeing.
-- In summer Leora and he drove to the Pony River for picnic suppers and a swim, very noisy, splashing, and immodest; through autumn he went duck-hunting with Bert Tozer, who became nearly tolerable when he stood at sunset on a pass between two slews; and with winter isolating the village in a sun-blank desert of snow, they had sleigh-rides, card-parties, "sociables" at the churches.
-- He was nearly insane; he worked twenty hours a day; he assured himself that he was not afraid; he reminded himself that he had an honestly won D.S.O.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was nearly eleven o'clock and although in summer in Peters-38 Crime and Punishmentburg there is no real night, yet it was quite dark at the top of the stairs.
-- Dounia darling, as though I did not know you!You were nearly twenty when I saw you last: I understood you then.
-- Then Raskolnikov lost his head and nearly made a great mistake.
-- Coming here!And it seemed to him all at once that he was turned to stone, that it was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and cannot even move one's arms.
-- And meanwhile he dared not quicken his pace much, though the next turning was still nearly a hundred yards away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without being nearly so much surprised as I expected, mymother entered into it readily; and it was all arranged that night,and my board and lodging during the visit were to be paid for.
-- It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect howeager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspectedwhat I did leave for ever.
-- It was Miss Murdstone who was arrived, and a gloomy-lookinglady she was, dark, like her brother, whom she greatly resembledin face and voice; and with very heavy eyebrows, nearly meetingover her large nose, as if, being disabled by the wrongs of her sexfrom wearing whiskers, she had carried them to that account.
-- This did not save me from more jokes, either; for a husky-voicedgentleman with a rough face, who had been eating out of asandwich-box nearly all the way, except when he had beendrinking out of a bottle, said I was like a boa-constrictor, who tookenough at one meal to last him a long time; after which he actuallybrought a rash out upon himself with boiled beef.
-- He was as good as his word, if that were all right which I had asecret misgiving was nearly all wrong- for I feared it was a wasteof my mother's two half- crowns- though I had preserved the pieceof paper they were wrapped in: which was a precious saving.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Volume IChapter IEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
-- She had reason to believe her nearly recovered from her cold, and it was desirable that she should have as much time as possible for getting the better of her other complaint be-fore the gentleman's return.
-- 'No,' said Mr. Knightley, nearly at the same time; 'you are not often deficient; not often deficient either in manner orcomprehension.
-- Ten minutes would have been all that was necessary, perhaps all that was proper; and I had told my father I should certainly be at home before him but there was no getting away, no pause; and, to my utter astonishment, I found, when he (finding me nowhere else) joined me there at last, that I had been actually sitting with them very nearly three-quarters of an hour.
-- 'I dare say you would; but I, simple I, saw nothing but the fact, that Miss Fairfax was nearly dashed from the ves-sel and that Mr. Dixon caught her. It was the work of a moment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
-- NIGHT THE FLOCK AN INTERIOR ANOTHER INTERIORIt was nearly midnight on the eve of St. Thomas's, the shortest day in the year.
-- Norcombe Hill not far from lonely Toller-Down was one of the spots which suggest to a passer-by that he is in the presence of a shape approaching the indestructible as nearly as any to be found on earth.
-- He carried a lantern in his hand, and closing the door behind him, came forward and busied himself about this nook of the field for nearly twenty minutes, the lantern light appearing and disappearing here and there, and brightening him or darkening him as he stood before or behind it.
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