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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steak soon be-gan to look brown, and to crackle in the pan; and Catherine stood by with a fork and turned it: then she said to herself, 'The steak is almost ready, I may as well go to the cellar for the ale.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was much abated.
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
-- I answered in a few words, but in the most sub-missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of nature so strong upon me, that I could not forbear showing my im-patience (perhaps against the strict rules of decency) by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food.
-- The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
-- On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side, the king's smith conveyed fourscore and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left leg with six-and-thir-ty padlocks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost as soon as they could run alone, they had been made to run to the lecture-room.
-- Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa, peeping with all her might through a hole in a deal board, and his own mathematical Thomas abasing himself on the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act!
-- Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized.
-- said Mrs. Gradgrind, rendered almost energetic.
-- There had been so little communication between these two both because life at Stone Lodge went monotonously round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference, and because of the prohibition relative to Sissy's past career that they were still almost strangers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In connection with the sciences there are many almost unpronounceable names--names very much resembling those of Welsh villages; and my uncle being very fond of using them, his habit of stammering was not thereby improved.
-- I took deep interest in all his doings, and hoped some day to be almost as learned myself.
-- On the fly leaf was what appeared to be a blot of ink, but on examination proved to be a line of writing almost effaced by time.
-- My uncle walked about the room in a state of excitement almost impossible to describe.
-- I was, in fact, fighting against an insurmountable difficulty; my brain was almost on fire; my eyes were strained with staring at the parchment; the whole absurd collection of letters appeared to dance before my vision in a number of black little groups.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- The rector was a nice man of about sixty, full of his duty, and reduced, personally, almost to a nonentity by the si-lent You leave me alone! of the village.
-- His manner was often offensively supercilious, and then again modest and self-effacing, almost tremulous.
-- Clifford was almost morbidly sensitive about these sto-ries.
-- If the critics praised it, and Clifford's name was almost famous, and it even brought in money...what did her father mean by saying there was nothing in Clifford's writing?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have a light hand; and if I have been seen apparently to correct Madame Rigaud in that manner, I have done it almost playfully.'
-- 'It's almost an aggravation of the enormity, that we shall be out to-day.
-- When she had almost completed the journey, and was passing along the gallery in which her room was, she heard an angry sound of muttering and sobbing.
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