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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, 'Come along, Little Brother,' and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
-- The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim, and swim almost as well as he could run.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any oth-er district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.
-- 'Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not entirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by indulg-ing in our favorite pursuit.
-- Forbidden to stir even a hand, and almost afraid to breath, lest they should expose the frail fabric to the fury of the stream, the passengers watched the glancing waters in feverish suspense.
-- ' Death of Agrippina he sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring Tincidents of the combat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated imagination of Heyward like some exciting dream.
-- Faint and almost despairing as was the prospect of es-cape, the words of Duncan were not thrown away, for it awakened the powers of the sisters in such a manner that they awaited the results in silence.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
-- The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plow-horse, that had outlived almost everything but its vi-ciousness.
-- A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called, and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horses tail.
-- Buxom lasses, almost as antiquated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine ribbon, or per-haps a white frock, gave symptoms of city innovation.
-- Such heaped up platters of cakes of various and almost indescrib-able kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives!
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Richard Twining bubbled over with quaint absurdities, and George Road, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a by-word, opened his mouth only to put food into it.
-- Dirk Stroeve, telling the story, had such a look of blank astonishment on his round, foolish face that it was almost impossible not to laugh.
-- The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.
-- The silence of the studio seemed to gather body, so that it became an almost palpable presence.
-- It was not exactly spirituality that was obvious, though the screen of the flesh seemed almost transparent, because there was in his face an outrageous sensuality; but, though it sounds nonsense, it seemed as though his sensuality were curiously spiritual.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hundred times they had almost perished!A hundred times had they almost fallen from their torn balloon into the depths of the ocean.
-- And hundreds of times Captain Harding had almost been among those who were not counted by the terrible Grant; but in these combats where he never spared himself, fortune favored him till the moment when he was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of battle near Richmond.
-- Pencroft was an American from the North, who had sailed all the ocean over, and who had gone through every possible and almost impossible adventure that a being with two feet and no wings would encounter.
-- Even the enormous balloon, almost beaten to the ground, could not be seen.
-- However, Pencroft, accustomed with his sailor eyes to piece through the gloom, was almost certain that he could clearly distinguish in the west confused masses which indicated an elevated coast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I almost think I could,' cried the old man, turning feebly upon him.
-- The old man almost answered my thoughts, as he laid his hand on hers, and spoke aloud.
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