nearly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 差不多， 几乎，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I'll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, and curl up to sleep in a lock of straw!It played me nearly the same trick the other day!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer saw to her table, lighted a fire daily in the sitting-room for nearly six months, and kept the promise of her prospectus, even going to some expense to do so.
-- Until the first year was nearly at an end, Goriot had dined out once or twice every week, but these occasions came less frequently, and at last he was scarcely absent from the dinner-table twice a month.
-- said Eugene to himself when the bar was nearly finished.
-- It's nearly ten o'clock, and you let me sleep like a dormouse!Such a thing has never happened before."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated.
-- His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering.
-- 'I thank you,' he replied, 'for your sympathy, but it is use-less; my fate is nearly fulfilled.
-- I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to re-cord, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.
-- He appeared about fifty years of age, but with an aspect expres-sive of the greatest benevolence; a few grey hairs covered his temples, but those at the back of his head were nearly black.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's rained nearly every day for a week.
-- Already the plowing was nearly finished, and thebloody glory of the sunset colored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues.
-- Then he had said: "Not now!We're nearly home and there isn't time.
-- He did not know that he had taken nearly ten years to arrive, for it never occurred to him that his neighbors hadeyed him askance at first.
-- The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a "new man," despite his nearly ten years'residence, and a foreigner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- I was nearly going away without the pie, but I was tempted to mount upon a shelf, to look what it was that was put away so carefully in a covered earthenware dish in a corner, and I found it was the pie, and I took it in the hope that it was not intended for early use, and would not be missed for some time.
-- When we had shaken hands and he was gone, I opened the staircase window and had nearly beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it came down like the guillotine.
-- Mr. Pocket, Junior's, idea of Shortly was not mine, for I had nearly maddened myself with looking out for half an hour, and had written my name with my finger several times in the dirt of every pane in the window, before I heard footsteps on the stairs.
-- At last his father disinherited him; but he softened when he was dying, and left him well off, though not nearly so well off as Miss Havisham.--Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The youngest son fell to the bottom of the river's bed: luckily it was nearly dry, but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he could find no way to get out.
-- But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bot-tom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.
-- The fowls began to turn brown, and were nearly ready, but the guest had not yet arrived.
-- His first betrothed heard of this, and fretted so much about his faithfulness that she nearly died.
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