【nearly音标】 英[ˈnɪəli] 美[ˈnɪrli]
【单词释义】 nearly是什么意思：
adv.几乎，差不多；险乎
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【常用短语】
not nearly 远非；绝不是
【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】
◇ IT was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast.
天气非常非常冷，夜幕已降临，雪下得很大。这是旧年最后的一夜——除夕之夜。
◇ Down,down,down.Would she ever stop falling?Alice was very nearly asleep when,suddenly,she was sitting on the ground.Quickly,she jumped to her feet and looked around.She could see the White Rabbit,who was hurrying away and still talking to himself.'Oh my ears and whiskers!'he was saying.'How late it's getting!'
掉呀，掉呀，掉呀。什么时候才能停下来呢？爱丽丝都快睡着了，突然，她一下坐到了地上。她很快跳了起来，看了看周围。她看见白兔正急匆匆走开，还在自言自语：“噢，我的耳朵和胡子！现在太晚了！”
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ "The research posits that peeling can effectively eliminate nearly all pesticide residues, contrasted with the frequently recommended practice of washing," study co-author Professor Dongdong Ye said.
研究报告的合著者叶冬冬教授表示：“与经常推荐的清洗做法形成对比的是，研究提出削皮可以有效地消除几乎所有的农药残留。”
---- How to washing your fruits and veggies
◇ It paves the way for private citizens to travel to the ISS aboard rocket-and-capsule launch systems being developed by Boeing Co and Elon Musk's SpaceX. The two companies are set to ferry astronauts to the ISS from US soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
这为普通民众搭乘波音公司和埃隆·马斯克的太空探索技术公司研发的火箭及太空舱发射系统前往国际空间站铺平了道路。这两家公司都准备近十年内首次将太空旅行者从美国送到国际空间站。
---- NASA to open space station to private citizens
◇ And according to marketing company WebPageFX, nearly 85% of consumers say the main reason they choose one product over the other is color. Another 80% said that colors are what give brands that memorable stamp of recognition.
根据营销公司WebPageFX的调查，近85%的消费者表示他们在两种相似产品中做出选择的主要原因是颜色。还有80%的消费者表示品牌标志最让人印象深刻的是颜色。
---- Why so many fast food logos are red
◇ "By expanding it, China will not be as nearly dependent on exports for economic growth as in its earlier economic development phase. This will create an even larger economic base inside China to sustain its economic growth," Foster said.
福斯特说：“通过发展国内市场，中国将不再像经济发展初期那样依赖于出口。这将进一步夯实中国内部经济基础，使经济可持续增长。”
---- Eliminating poverty builds larger market
◇ For nearly 25 years scientists were hampered in their efforts to find an explanation for the huge explosions because they lasted no longer than a few seconds.
在其后大约25年的时间里，科学家试图为大爆炸找到一个解释，但由于大爆炸的持续时间只有几秒钟，他们显然对此束手无策。
---- The Big Bang
◇ Then the king traveled about for nearly seven years, searching in all the stone cliffs and caves, but he did not find her, and he thought that she had perished.
于是国王找了七年，他找遍了每一个石缝、每一个山洞，但还是没有找到，他想她准是因为缺衣少食死了。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ The weaver's dog, not nearly so well supplied, was now a half-starved hound.
纺织女养的那只狗却显得尖瘦，一个月来缺吃少喝的。