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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles's person, and though the doctor's evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was in-deed his friend and patient who lay before him it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion.
-- Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered: 'Mr.
-- Now, you would call it a guess, no doubt, but I am almost certain that this address has been written in a hotel.'
-- My own was in the same wing as Baskerville's and almost next door to it.
-- By the time that you have looked through them lunch will be almost ready.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical it might almost be called a malicious smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.
-- 'Oh, you are right again,' said the fair-haired traveller, 'for I really am ALMOST wrong when I say she and I are related.
-- 'This gentleman declares, Gavrila Ardalionovitch,' began the man, confidentially and almost familiarly, 'that he is Prince Muishkin and a relative of Madame Epanchin's.
-- 'They are almost relations,' I said to myself,' so I'll begin with them; perhaps we may get on with each other, I with them and they with me, if they are kind people;' and I have heard that you are very kind people!'
-- His fits were so frequent then, that they made almost an idiot of him (the prince used the expression 'idiot' himself).
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been a monument to some one long since dead, or it may have been used as a doubling-post in days gone by; now, how-ever, it has been fixed on by Achilles as the mark round which the chariots shall turn; hug it as close as you can, but as you stand in your chariot lean over a little to the left; urge on your right-hand horse with voice and lash, and give him a loose rein, but let the left-hand horse keep so close in, that the nave of your wheel shall almost graze the post; but mind the stone, or you will wound your horses and break your chariot in pieces, which would be sport for others but confusion for yourself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His temper continued very uncertain; for the most part his manner was that of a man suffering under almost unendurable provocation, and once or twice things were snapped, torn, crushed, or broken in spasmodic gusts of violence.
-- Mrs. Hall was left almost in a fainting condition in Mr. Hall's arms on the landing.
-- CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing.
-- Mr. Marvel, turning, saw a flint jerk up into the air, trace a complicated path, hang for a moment, and then fling at his feet with almost invisible rapidity.
-- And on the table under the window where the stranger had been wont to work, Cuss had hit almost at once on three big books in manuscript labelled "Diary."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- They grappled together and almost stood up.
-- An almost vertical streak of smoke went up from it into the sky.
-- They had lank black hair, almost like horsehair, and seemed as they sat to exceed in stature any race of men I have seen.
-- He had a large, almost lipless, mouth, extraordinary lank arms, long thin feet, and bow-legs, and stood with his heavy face thrust forward staring at us.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The re-sult was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet, landing almost where he left ground.
-- He had almost forgot-ten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake.
-- He grew up with the cubs, though they, of course, were grown wolves almost before he was a child.
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