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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps they would know this almost universal language.
-- I was making my observations, when Ned and Conseil awoke almost at the same time, under the influence of this reviving air.
-- One might almost think so.
-- I entered the Captain's room: it had a severe, almost a monkish aspect.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Gudrun, almost angrily, took up her rubber and began to rub out part of her drawing.
-- Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost hostile.
-- Gudrun looked at Ursula, almost with resentment, as if brought to bay.
-- Her son was of a fair, sun-tanned type, rather above middle height, well-made, and almost exaggeratedly well-dressed.
-- Her long, pale face, that she carried lifted up, somewhat in the Rossetti fashion, seemed almost drugged, as if a strange mass of thoughts coiled in the darkness within her, and she was never allowed to escape.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one.
-- The canisters were almost out of her reach; I made a motion to aid her; she turned upon me as a miser might turn if any one attempted to assist him in counting his gold.
-- I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs. Heathcliff; his thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free, almost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity in attending on the lady of the house.
-- he interrupted, with an almost diabolical sneer on his face.
-- I began to dream, almost before I ceased to be sensible of my locality.
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