【almost音标】 英[ˈɔ:lməʊst] 美[ˈɔ:lmoʊst]
【单词释义】 almost是什么意思：
adv.几乎，差不多；将近；快要；近乎
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【近义词解析】
◇ 几乎，差不多
almost (adv. 几乎，差不多)：指在程度、数量等方面十分接近。almost 可用于 any 以及 no, none, nobody, nothing, never 等否定词之前,但 nearly 一般不这样用。
nearly (adv. [尤英]几乎，差不多)：常与数字连用，表示在数量、时间、面积等方面的接近；与副词、动词等连用时，多表示程度上的接近。nearly 前可用 very, pretty, not 等词修饰,但 almost 之前不能用这些词。not修饰nearly 意为“远非”，“远不及”。
【单词例句】
◇ But there they are, and it is no delusion. It almost looks like a great plateful of spiders jumping about in a crowd.
不过它们的确存在着，一点也不虚假。这好像是一大盘龙虾，在你上我下地跳跃着。
---- The Drop of Water
◇ All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world; a world of smiles, love and warmth.
就在那一霎那间，她的身体缺陷消失了，我看到的只是一个美丽的女孩儿，她的笑容使我融化，并几乎立刻使我对人生有了一种新的认识。她把我这个贫穷而不幸的大学生带进了她的世界，一个充满微笑、爱和温暖的世界。
---- World of Smiles
◇ Perhaps the most spectacular feature of the Grand Canyon, its Redwall limestone cliff, stands about half way up the chasm and is practically vertical. Its average height is 550 feet --- almost exactly that of the Washington Monument.
也许，大峡谷最引人注目的风貌特色是“红墙”石灰石悬崖，它耸立在裂口半当中，几乎是垂直的。它的平均高度为550 英尺--几乎和华盛顿纪念碑一样高。
---- The Grand Canyon
◇ The mobile phone is a good example of how something that is technologically sophisticated can almost be given away,with its cost recovered through service charges. Users are then coerced through clever marketing to upgrade to newer phones with more features to reinforce their dependence.
移动电话就是一个很好的例子，它说明复杂的技术也可以攻克。通过改变服务来重新获得成本。在敏锐的市场，被迫升级为有更多功能的，更新的电话以加强信任度。
◇ Tierno says all that gunk becomes "significant" in as little as a week. And unclean bedding still exposes you to materials that can trigger the sniffing and sneezing, since the microbes are so close to your mouth and nose that you're almost forced to breathe them in.
缇艾诺说，在短短一周的时间里，这些污物就会变得“严重”起来。不清洁的床单被罩会让你暴露在这些物质中，从而引发鼻炎和喷嚏，因为微生物离你的嘴和鼻子太近了，你几乎是被迫将它们吸进去。
---- How often you should wash your bed sheets?
◇ Made from fossil fuels, they are almost never recycled because they're too small and could be made from several different types of plastic.
用化石燃料制成的塑料吸管几乎从来不会被回收利用，因为它们体积太小，而且可能是由好几种不同类型的塑料制成的。
---- Is time up for this plastic relic
◇ Almost everybody in the world comes into contact with it -- over a quarter of all plastic is used for packaging, the most popular use of the material.
塑料制品中最受欢迎的当属塑料袋了，超过四分之一的塑料最终都制成了各种袋子。日常生活中，几乎每个人都要用到它。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ Your body regulates its temperature via a small peanut-shaped section of the brain known as the hypothalamus. This region works almost like a thermostat in a home, turning the temperature up or down based on various factors—such as how cold or hot the skin is.
人的身体通过脑部花生大小的下丘脑来调节体温。下丘脑的工作原理和家中的恒温器相似，根据不同的因素来调高或降低体温，比如说，根据皮肤温度的冷热。
---- How to keep your body cool
◇ Truth: If you're looking to lose weight, you shouldn't assume that you can simply 'work off' whatever you eat. Experts say slimming down almost always starts with significant changes to your eating habits.
事实：如果你想要减肥，你就不要用“我吃下去的卡路里都能燃烧掉”来自我催眠。专家表示，瘦下来主要靠明显改变自己的饮食习惯。
---- Common fitness misconceptions
◇ But, glancing through our surroundings, I foresaw the potential danger and found no guarantee of our safety. The uncomfortable gas almost made us unconscious. Sweats of anxiety began to drop.
然而，我向四周看了一下，马上预见到了潜在的危险，也发现了我们的安全毫无保障。令人不舒服的气体几乎使我们失去知觉，忧虑的汗水开始流淌下来。
---- A Volcano Eruption