almost是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 几乎， 差不多，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge's countenance fell almost as low as the Ghost's had done.
-- Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling.
-- 90 Sons and Lovers He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful lan-guage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not one of the three could have said, from anything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hid-den under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the eyes of the body, of his two companions.
-- Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and grow-ing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose.
-- But, though the bank was almost always with him, and though the coach (in a confused way, like the presence of pain under an opiate) was always with him, there was an-other current of impression that never ceased to run, all through the night.
-- 'Almost eighteen years.'
-- 'Almost eighteen years.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the Princess touched it, and was almost ready to cry.
-- Never before, he thought, had he been in such a coarse and ignorant company; one might almost fancy the people had turned heathens again.
-- I missed my good old mother and the dear little ones; who almost tear me to pieces for sheer love.'
-- 'Great Heaven!What is come to me!Never have I thought or felt like this before!It must be the summer air that affects me with feelings almost as dis-quieting as they are refreshing.'
-- He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking dil-igence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Stepan Arkadyevitch was completely in the wrong as regards his wife, and was conscious of this himself, almost every one in the house (even the nurse, Darya Alexandrovna's chief ally) was on his side.
-- As it was, even in the course of these three days, the youngest was unwell from being given unwholesome soup, and the others had almost gone without their dinner the day before.
-- was almost always said with a smile of delight on meeting him.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common.
-- Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.
-- His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost portly and well-built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days.
-- He made India his home, only paying brief visits to England at rare intervals; and was almost as familiar as a native with the customs, history, and character of India and its people.
-- The English have not been able to secure complete dominion over this territory, which is subjected to the influence of rajahs, whom it is almost impossible to reach in their inaccessible mountain fastnesses.
-- They were getting on rapidly, when suddenly a cry was heard in the interior of the temple, followed almost instantly by other cries replying from the outside.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a bright and happy Christian, a romping optimist who laughed away sin and doubt, a joyful Puritan who with annoying virility preached the doctrine of his tiny sect, the Sanctification Brotherhood, that to have a beautiful church was almost as damnable as the debaucheries of card-playing.
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