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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
-- The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe--I never thought I was going to rob Joe, for I never thought of any of the housekeeping property as his--united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread and butter as I sat, or when I was ordered about the kitchen on any small errand, almost drove me out of my mind.
-- All this I saw in a moment, for I had only a moment to see it in: he swore an oath at me, made a hit at me,--it was a round weak blow that missed me and almost knocked himself down, for it made him stumble,--and then he ran into the mist, stumbling twice as he went, and I lost him.
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- It had been almost dark before, but now it seemed quite dark, and soon afterwards very dark.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The youngest son fell to the bottom of the river's bed: luckily it was nearly dry, but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he could find no way to get out.
-- And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the 19owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.
-- cried the carter; for he saw that the corn was almost all gone.
-- An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In 1819, however, the time when this drama opens, there was an almost penniless young girl among Mme.
-- It is built of rough stone, and covered with the yellowish stucco that gives a mean appearance to almost every house in Paris.
-- It was almost like a family party.
-- The hale vermicelli manufacturer, sixty-two years of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous tradesman, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it did you good to look at him; the man with something boyish in his smile, had suddenly sunk into his dotage, and had become a feeble, vacillating septuagenarian.
-- It was almost like a patent of nobility to be admitted to those gilded salons; he had appeared in the most exclusive circle in Paris, and now all doors were open for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.
-- Besides, in draw-ing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that pas-sion which afterward ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
-- When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hang-ing in the stars and ready to envelop me.
-- They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invis-ible world with its own shadows.'
-- Unless I had been animated by an almost su-pernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had known her for years, and, since their childhood, she had been a favorite playmate, for shecould ride horses and climb trees almost as well as they.
-- Scarlett recalled withcontempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
-- Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the otherO'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government But Gerald was "loud-mouthed andbullheaded," as his mother fondly phrased it, hair trigger of temper, quick with his fists and possessed of a chip on hisshoulder so large as to be almost visible to the naked eye.
-- She entered, and behind her, almost hidden by hervoluminous calico skirts, came her twelve-year-old daughter, squirming against her mother's legs.
-- She knew that to uphold this dignity, they must ignore what she said, even if she stood in the nextroom and almost shouted.
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