nearly

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英[ˈnɪəli]
美[ˈnɪrli]

基本释义

adv.
几乎; 差不多

实用例句

The bottle's nearly empty.

这瓶子差不多空了。

牛津词典

I've worked here for nearly two years.

我已经在这里工作了将近两年。

牛津词典

It's nearly time to leave.

快该走了。

牛津词典

The audience was nearly all men.

观众几乎全都是男的。

牛津词典

He's nearly as tall as you are.

他差不多和你一样高了。

牛津词典

They're nearly always late.

他们几乎总是迟到。

牛津词典

She very nearly died.

她差点儿死了。

牛津词典

It's not nearly as hot as last year.

天气绝没有去年那么热。

牛津词典

There isn't nearly enough time to get there now.

现在根本没有足够的时间赶到那儿。

牛津词典

Goldsworth stared at me in silence for nearly twenty seconds...

将近20秒的时间,戈兹沃思就那么一声不响地盯着我看。

Hunter knew nearly all of this already...

这事亨特几乎已全知道了。

It was already nearly eight o'clock...

已经快8点了。

I was nearly asleep...

我差不多都睡着了。

Father's flat in Paris wasn't nearly as grand as this...

爸爸在法国的公寓远不如这处宽敞。

Minerals in general are not nearly so well absorbed as other nutrients...

总体来说,矿物质远远不如其他营养成分好吸收。

His story sounds incredible.

他讲的这些,听起来难以相信.

期刊摘选

The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water.

那球重重地打在他身上,他几乎掉下水去.

《用法词典》

Halfway across the field , the farmer ploughed out some very large stones which nearly broke his machine.

这个农民在地里犁地犁到半路的时候, 犁出一些很大的石头,几乎弄坏了他的机器.

《简明英汉词典》

Nearly everybody enters for'The Nicest Garden Competition'each year, but Joe wins everytime.

几乎每年每人都报名参加“最佳花园赛 ”, 但每次都是乔获胜.

《用法词典》

Phew! That was a close call — she nearly saw us!

喔,真险! 她差点看到我们.

《简明英汉词典》

I looked down and nearly fell off the ladder when I saw a policeman.

我向下瞧了瞧,当我看到一名警察时差一点从梯子上摔下来.

《用法词典》

I used to go out nearly every night but I decided to knock it on the head because I couldn't really afford it.

我以前几乎每晚外出,但我决定停止,因为我实在抽不出时间.

《简明英汉词典》

I was nearly killed in the accident.

我在这场事故中险些丧命.

《简明英汉词典》

When she said she was engaged I nearly fell off my chair.

她说她已订婚时,我几乎大吃一惊.

《简明英汉词典》

I was nearly drowned last night, but was fortunate enough to be saved.

我昨天夜里差一点淹死, 真走运,有人把我救了.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Our topic today is about something that foreigners nearly always say when they visit Britain.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Its science departments are not nearly as good.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It’s been in business nearly a century.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

Nearly every business has a sad tale to tell.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

But it actually shouldn't matter to you nearly as much as you think.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

With the percentage of people over age 65 expected to nearly double by 2050, it's important to weigh the health benefits of screening against the risks and costs of routine testing

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

when nearly one-quarter of the workforce was unemployed, the divorce rate had declined by around 25% from 1929 But this doesn't mean people were suddenly happier with their marriages.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Nearly 250 schools on the full ,Newsweek list of the top 5% of schools nationally had fewer than 200 graduates in

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has found that a married older man with heart disease can expect to live nearly four years longer than an unmarried man with a healthy heart.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

But at the same time, nearly half of U.S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and powering our homes, offices and other buildings.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

About 9% attempted to conceal "nonessential Internet use," and nearly 4% reported feeling "preoccupied by the Internet when offline.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Moreover, Americans eat out nearly four times a week on average.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Nonetheless, I spend nearly every weekend at his house and we talk on the phone every night.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

"Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries," he says.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

He was trapped under a beam about 10 feet below the surface for nearly an hour and a half.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

It's been in business nearly a century.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Last year, a study from Aston University in the UK used nearly identical parameters to our study and found similar results.

2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Manufacturers would have nearly total freedom to test their self-driving technology on public roads.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Over 10 months, Comcast received nearly 12,000 customer complaints, many relating to its monthly data cap and overage charges.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Popping food into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless, but Europe's stock of these quick-cooking ovens emit as much carbon as nearly 7 million cars, a new study has found.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Stawood Hotels and Resorts, which owns more than 1, 150 hotels in nearly 100 countries, plans to install the system in the next three months at two of its hotels in the USA.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

That study looked at nearly 28, 000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

The airlander 10 spent nearly 2 hours in the air, having taken off from Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Those are a few of the traits of successful science crowdfunding efforts that emerge from a recent study that examined nearly 400 campaigns.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related diseases, according to WHO statistics.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In contrast, the criminal justice system accounted for nearly one out of every five visual backgrounds.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

A study by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters finds that, between 1980 and 2007, nearly 8,400 natural disasters killed more than twomillion people.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

But a new study finds that there's another group of adolescents who are in nearly as much danger of experiencing the same psychiatric symptoms: teens who use tons of media, don't get enough sleep and have a sedentary lifestyle.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The National Association of Social Workers represents nearly 145,000 social workers across the country.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Nearly three-quarters of the first group guessed that Mr.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

Unfortunately,many American universities seem awfully busy protecting their brand name and not nearly busy enough protecting the pursuit of knowledge.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

F) Today nearly 70 percent of graduating seniors go off to college, including two-year and four-year institutions.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Nearly all application materials are submitted online, and the Common Application provides a one-size-fits form accepted by more than 400 schools, including the nation's most selective

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Consumers in developed countries throw away nearly half of their food purchases because they tend to buy in excessive quantities.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

That front-page package you've been working on is nearly complete; one last edit and it's finished.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Men commit nearly 90 percent of violent crimes in the United States and almost all sexual assaults.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

I went there last Saturday for their grand opening sale, but I drove around the parking lot for nearly an hour, looking for a space before I finally gave up and came home

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Nearly nine million Americans alone suffer from the illness

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Researchers at Cambridge University have found that nearly half of the social networking sites don't immediately delete pictures when a user requests they be removed.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

"Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet," wrote Tony Schwartz in New York times.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

A wandering mind! By one estimate, people daydream through nearly half of their waking hours?

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

And I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

But it actually shouldn't matter to you nearly as much as you think.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Every summer when I top up my selection of summer outfits from the department stores, my eyes would nearly pop out of my head.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

George Bernard Shaw won a Nobel Prize when he was nearly 70.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

In 1699 she sailed with her daughter nearly 5,000 miles from the Netherlands to South America to study insects in the jungles of what is now known as Suriname.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In one experiment, nearly 200 participants boarded a double-decker bus for a tour of Philadelphia.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

In the 1960s, the United States devoted nearly 17% of discretionary spending to research and development, reaping decades of economic growth.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

It is nearly identical to our own planet in bulk properties, such as mass, density and size.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Leadership of the planning corporation has changed hands nearly as many times as the opening date has been pushed back.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Mott survey found among the 56 percent of mothers and 34 percent of fathers who discussed parenting on social media, 72 percent of them said sharing made them feel less alone, and nearly as many said sharing helped them worry less and gave them advice fro

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related diseases, according to WHO statistics.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Nearly a billion people are illiterate.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, less-educated parents.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The ability to work well with others and collaborate on projects is a sought-after ability in nearly every position.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The lake's landscape is bizarre and deadly—and made even more so by the fact that it's the place where nearly 75 percent of the world's flamingos are born.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

The National Association of Social Workers represents nearly 145, 000 social workers across the country.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

There's little doubt that nearly everyone who comes in contact with the Net has difficulty disconnecting.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

We're looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in 10 years, roughly 10 years, and 100 percent loss in nearly 20 years.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

When looking at how women are depicted, the study found female characters were four times more likely to be shown in sexy clothing, and nearly four times as likely to be referred to as physically attractive.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Because unabridged dictionaries contain nearly all English words, they are large and heavy.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 任务型读写 原文

But herd immunity works only when nearly the whole herd joins in.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Diners at bad tables — next to the kitchen door, say — spent nearly as much as others but soon fled.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint, including their nighttime breeding choruses.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

He couldn't walk, but he managed to get out of the crevasse and started to move towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers away.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

He wrote many children' s books, nearly half of which were published in the 1990s.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 单项填空 原文

However, I spend nearly two-thirds of my time doing research.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 听力 原文

I enjoy nearly all kinds of music, especially country music and classical music.

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

In the 1980s, electrical lines an d lead poisoning nearly drove them to dying out.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

In the sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Last year the foundation reported that nearly 60% of 7- to 12-year-olds said they felt tired during the day, and 15% said they had fallen asleep at school.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

More recently, the Paris Agreement, stuck by nearly 200 countries, also aims to limit global warming.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

More than half (53 percent) have breakfast alone and nearly half (46 percent) have lunch by themselves.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Nearly 40 percent of Jazz lovers live outside of the Dallas city limits and drive or fly in to enjoy an evening in the Bishop Arts district.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

The government spent nearly 30 years coming up with a plan to reintroduce the wolves.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

They also live nearly everywhere, except on frozen mountain tops and around the poles.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

They were seen as nearly worthless.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

When dad took off the lid, the smell nearly knocked us out.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The English language teaching sector directly earns nearly &1.

出自-2017年考研翻译原文

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons---both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

When the EEOB was finished, it was the largest office building in Washington, with nearly 2 miles of black and white tiled corridors.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of Michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 80 percent of college students end up changing their majors at least once.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

ai "vision" today is not nearly as sophisticated as that of humans.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

At RoMan Manufacturing, a maker of electrical transformers and welding equipment that his father cofounded in 1980, Robert Roth keep a close eye on the age of his nearly 200 workers.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons—both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run-up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The opposition claims primary school pupils doing at least two hours of sport a week have nearly halved.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They found that after a surprise departure, the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increased by nearly 20%.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adverb
  • 1. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost';

    "the job is (just) about done"

    "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"

    "we're almost finished"

    "the car all but ran her down"

    "he nearly fainted"

    "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"

    "the recording is well-nigh perfect"

    "virtually all the parties signed the contract"

    "I was near exhausted by the run"

    "most everyone agrees"

  • 2. in a close manner;

    "the two phenomena are intimately connected"

    "the person most nearly concerned"

同义词辨析

almost, nearly, about, approximately, around, roughly

这些副词均有"大约,差不多"之意。

  • almost:指在程度上相差很小,差不多。
  • nearly与almost含义基本相同,侧重指数量、时间或空间上的接近。
  • about:常可分almost和nearly换用,但about用于表示时间、数量的"大约"时,实际数量可能多也可能少。
  • approximately:多用于书面语,指精确度接近某个标准以致误差可忽略不计。
  • around:多用于非正式场合,常见于美国英语。
  • roughly:指按精略估计,常代替about。

同义词

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