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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
-- There was a great lord at court, nearly related to the king, and for that reason alone used with respect.
-- Another great advantage proposed by this invention was, that it would serve as a universal language, to be understood in all civilised nations, whose goods and utensils are gener-ally of the same kind, or nearly resembling, so that their uses might easily be comprehended.
-- Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, sig-nifies the island of sorcerers or magicians.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, time was nearly out.
-- It was a hasty note to inform Louisa that Mrs. Gradgrind lay very ill. She had never been well within her daughter's knowledge; but, she had declined within the last few days, had continued sinking all through the night, and was now as nearly dead, as her limited capacity of being in any state that implied the ghost of an intention to get out of it, allowed.
-- She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in.
-- More than that: thith ith a prethiouth rathcal, and belongth to that bluthtering Cove that my people nearly pitht out o' winder.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old cook and housekeeper was nearly out of her mind.
-- I made very nearly one leap of it--so loud, so fierce was his tone.
-- There are words which are composed wholly of consonants, such as mm.rnlls, others which are nearly all vowels, the fifth, for instance, which is unteief, and one of the last oseibo.
-- "My worthy uncle is already nearly mad," I cried aloud.
-- When, nearly two hours later, I reached the bosom of mother earth, I was like a rheumatic old man bent double with pain.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.
-- In the actual sex-thrill within the body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power.
-- The miners' wives were nearly all Methodists.
-- Connie and Clifford had now been nearly two years at Wragby, living their vague life of absorption in Clifford and his work.
-- Connie nearly always had some-body at Wragby.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not on the same floor, for it was a room at the side of the house, which was approached by a steep descent of a few odd steps, diverging from the main staircase nearly opposite to Mrs Clennam's door.
-- A piece of red cloth with which that phantom had been stiffened in its lifetime was now laid bare, and poked itself up, at the back of the old man's neck, into a confusion of grey hair and rusty stock and buckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off.
-- 'Let me put you in a coach,' said Clennam, very nearly adding 'my poor child.'
-- As he stretched out his length upon it, with a ragged handkerchief bound round his wicked head, and only his wicked head showing above the bedclothes, John Baptist was rather strongly reminded of what had so very nearly happened to prevent the moustache from any more going up as it did, and the nose from any more coming down as it did.
-- Mr Pancks, who was always in a hurry, and who referred at intervals to a little dirty notebook which he kept beside him (perhaps containing the names of the defaulters he meant to look up by way of dessert), took in his victuals much as if he were coaling; with a good deal of noise, a good deal of dropping about, and a puff and a snort occasionally, as if he were nearly ready to steam away.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I know I do teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home,' began Meg, in the complaining tone again.
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