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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet the man stood out so bleakly from a mass of students who could neither complete their experiments nor ponder nor do anything save smoke pipes and watch football-practice that Martin loved him while he hated him, and almost meekly he followed him into Digamma Pi.
-- At her boarding-house she sighed, "I wish I could ask you to come in, but it's almost suppertime and-- Will you call me up some day?"
-- Clif was so noisy thereafter that he almost became tired of his own noise.
-- Madeline!She was the one person who understood him!Here, where everyone snatched at her and Dr. Brumfit beamed on her with almost matrimonial fondness, she was precious, she was something he must have.
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：
-- 'Honoured sir,' he began almost with solemnity, 'poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying.
-- The boy in the corner losing all control began trembling and screaming and rushed to his sister in violent terror, almost in a fit.
-- A big clumsy sofa occupied almost the whole of one wall and half the floor space of the room; it was once covered with chintz, but was now in rags and served Ras-kolnikov as a bed.
-- He delayed; he seemed almost afraid of something.
-- If possible, I would set-tle somewhere near you, for the most joyful piece of news, dear Rodya, I have kept for the end of my letter: know then, my dear boy, that we may, perhaps, be all together in a very short time and may embrace one another again after a sep-aration of almost three years!It is settled for certain that Dounia and I are to set off for Petersburg, exactly when I don't know, but very, very soon, possibly in a week.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- It has since been considered almost a miracle that myaunt didn't shake him, and shake what he had to say out of him.
-- Almost as soonas it shone upon the oyster-shell frame of my mirror I was out ofbed, and out with little Em'ly, picking up stones upon the beach.
-- Almost the first remarkable thing I observed in Miss Murdstone 52was, her being constantly haunted by a suspicion that the servantshad a man secreted somewhere on the premises.
-- I believe I shouldhave been almost stupefied but for one circumstance.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really be-long, afforded her no equals.
-- After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.
-- Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and qua-drille.
-- But Mr. Weston is almost an old man.
-- There is an openness, a quickness, almost a bluntness in Mr. Weston, which every body likes in him, because there is so much good-humour with it but that would not do to be copied.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thin grasses, more or less coating the hill, were touched by the wind in breezes of differing powers, and almost of differing natures one rubbing the blades heavily, another raking them piercingly, another brushing them like a soft broom.
-- To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.
-- Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia's chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs.
-- It was an artificial light, almost close at hand.
-- A dim mass under the slope reminded him that a shed occupied a place here, the site being a cutting into the slope of the hill, so that at its back part the roof was almost level with the ground.
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