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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How often have I said the same words to you, and almost gone down my knees when I spoke 'em!'
-- 'The balmy' came almost as soon as it was courted.
-- You, in whom I trusted so much, and who were almost the only friend I had!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tone of the note seemed to him too intimate, and he tore it up; he wrote another, but that was too formal, almost offensive.
-- With uplifted shoulders, his robe unbuttoned, and portfolio under his arm, he almost ran, his heels clattering on the floor, and his disengaged hand outstretched in the direction in which he was going.
-- They arose and, crowding each other, went into the consultation room, where almost every one produced cigarettes and began to smoke.
-- Nekhludoff thought meanwhile, his breath almost failing him.
-- Almost bursting into laughter, Katiousha quickly changed places with Nekhludoff, and pressing with her strong, rough little hand his large hand she ran to the left, rustling her starched skirt.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.
-- I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire, and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace.
-- I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.
-- The idea was received with melodious applause; and presently they were all running to and fro for flowers, and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom.
-- The dinner and my conversational beginnings ended, I noted for the first time that almost all those who had surrounded me at first were gone.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Her petals are done up close, almost like a dahlia,' the Tiger-lily interrupted: 'not tumbled about anyhow, like yours.'
-- And they ran on for a time in silence, with the wind whistling in Alice's ears, and almost blowing her hair off her head, she fancied.
-- I shouldn't like to lose it at all because they'd have to give me another, and it would be almost certain to be an ugly one.
-- Alice stood looking after it, almost ready to cry with vexation at having lost her dear little fellow-traveller so suddenly.
-- Even real scented rushes, you know, last only a very little while and these, being dream-rushes, melted away almost like snow, as they lay in heaps at her feet but Alice hardly noticed this, there were so many other curious things to think about.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.
-- Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow as if he were almost fainting.
-- As he was thus speaking, he had risen from bed with great difficulty, holding to my shoulder with a grip that almost made me cry out, and moving his legs like so much dead weight.
-- The blind man clung close to me, holding me in one iron fist and leaning almost more of his weight on me than I could carry.
-- So there we had to stay my mother almost entirely exposed and both of us within earshot of the inn.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, Professor; but more fortunate than you, I was able to find a footing almost directly upon a floating island."
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