almost
adv. 差不多，几乎
adv.
几乎，差不多；将近；快要；近乎
双语释义
adv.(副词)几乎,差不多 nearly; not quite
实际〔质〕上; 简直 virtually; practically
英英释义
almost[ 'ɔ:lməust ]
adv.(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished
"the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"
同义词：aboutjust aboutmostall butnearlynearnighvirtuallywell-nigh
词汇搭配
用作副词 (adv.)
～+副词
almost all几乎所有
almost every几乎每一个
almost perfect接近于完美
almost unrecognizable几乎认不出
almost over快结束了
almost always几乎总是
词组短语
almost all几乎处处
同近义词辨析
almost, approximately, about, nearly, roughly, around这组词都有“大约，差不多”的意思，其区别是：
almost指在程度上相差很小，差不多。
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。
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。
nearly与almost含义基本相同，侧重指数量、时间或空间上的接近。
roughly指按精略估计，常代替about。
around多用于非正式场合，常见于美国英语。
双语例句
用作副词(adv.)
He slipped and almost fell.
他脚下一滑，险些跌倒。
She was almost mad with grief when her son died.
她的儿子死去时，她悲伤得几乎疯了。
This event was almost simultaneous with that one.
这件事几乎是与那件事同时发生的。
It's almost time to go.
差不多是该走的时候了。
The bridge is almost 2 kilometres long.
这座桥差不多有两公里长。
用作形容词(adj.)
The girl was annoyed by his almost impudence.
他几近厚颜无耻的态度把那个女孩给惹恼了。
权威例句
An Almost Ideal Demand SystemEstimation of meat demand system in Jordan: an almost ideal demand system.
Calixarenes, Macrocycles with (Almost) Unlimited Possibilities
Spontaneous creation of almost scale-free density perturbations in an inflationary universe
Accumulation of High Levels of Monocytic Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells Enhances Graft Survival in Almost Tolerant Kidney Transpla...
Ross On Radio: An R&B Comeback, Almost
Cutting with alkaline carbonates: Cutting aids are still almost indispensable in the production of boiled sausage even today
On a class of almost regular Landsberg metrics
Least Angle Regression
ARB: a software environment for sequence data.
almost
almost: [OE] Almost is simply a combination of all and most. In Anglo-Saxon times, and up until the 17th century, it meant ‘mostly all’ or ‘nearly all’ (thus one could say ‘My best friends are almost men’, meaning most of them are men); but already by the 13th century the modern sense ‘nearly, not quite’ was well in place.=> all, most
almost (adv.)
Old English eallmæst "nearly all, for the most part," literally "mostly all;" see all + most. Modern form from 15c.
1. There are good reasons for the difference, although we almost certainly stumbled on them accidentally.
这种差异存在着充分的理由，尽管我们偶尔会感到迷惑。
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2. No doubt you have already realized that almost all dialog boxes are really transient applications.
毫无疑问，你已经发现几乎所有的对话框实际上都是暂时式应用程序。
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3. When an application’s communication with a person is well orchestrated, it becomes almost invisible.
当一个程序与用户的交流非常协调时，程序就是透明的了。
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4. Automatic save will be adequate for almost everybody.
自动保存对于大多数人来说足够了。
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5. Color is an important aspect of almost all visual interfaces.
在大多数可视界面上，颜色是一个很重要的方面。
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6. In Boolean, this will almost always return nothing.
在布尔逻辑中，基本上不可能有返回结果。
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7. Special edit modes are almost always examples of excise.
它应该位于可编辑字段中，用户单击后可以直接更改它，特殊的编辑模态几乎都是附加工作。
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8. followed almost immediately by “How are these things related?”
第2个问题也会立即产生：“这些元素之间有什么关系？”
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9. Similarly, the grid pattern in digital calendars is almost always of a fixed size.
相似地，数字化日历的网格始终有固定的大小。
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10. The key is to be decisive in your layout. Almost a square is no good.
这里的关键在于布局上要明确，差不多是一个正方形是不行的，差不多是两个正方形也是不行的。
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