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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were all unusually hungry, having waited nearly an hour, and for a minute no one spoke, only a minute, for Jo exclaimed impetuously, 'I'm so glad you came before we be-gan!'
-- And having pulled the boy's hair by way of a caress, Mr. Laurence walked on, while Laurie went through a series of comic evolutions behind their backs, which nearly produced an explosion of laughter from Jo.
-- After that, the little brown hood slipped through the hedge nearly every day, and the great drawing room was haunted by a tuneful spirit that came and went unseen.
-- When the girls saw that performance, Jo began to dance a jig, by way of expressing her satisfaction, Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with up-lifted hands, 'Well, I do believe the world is coming to an end.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
-- At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.
-- They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
-- These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man maintained a profound silence.
-- Nearly all joined in singing this hymn, which swelled high above the howling of the storm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the copper, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.
-- 'It's a poor boy from the free-school, sir,' replied Mr. Bumble, 'who has been nearly murdered--all but murdered, sir,--by young Twist.'
-- Though he was nearly five miles away from the town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by turns, till noon: fearing that he might be pur sued and overtaken.
-- He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels.
-- As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had in-tended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
-- Chapter 21 he discussion of Mr. Collins's offer was now nearly at an Tend, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncom- fortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusions of her mother.
-- But of all the views which his garden, or which the country or kingdom could boast, none were to be com-pared with the prospect of Rosings, afforded by an opening in the trees that bordered the park nearly opposite the front of his house.
-- It is nearly fifty miles.'
-- The vicious propensities the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was in some degree settled in my measures for carry-ing on the plantation before my kind friend, the captain of the ship that took me up at sea, went back - for the ship remained there, in providing his lading and preparing for his voyage, nearly three months - when telling him what little stock I had left behind me in London, he gave me this friendly and sincere advice:- 'Seignior Inglese,' says he (for so he always called me), 'if you will give me letters, and a procuration in form to me, with orders to the person who has your money in London to send your effects to Lisbon, to such persons as I shall direct, and in such goods as are proper for this country, I will bring you the produce of them, God willing, at my return; but, since human affairs are all subject to changes and disasters, I would have you give orders but for one hundred pounds sterling, which, you say, is half your stock, and let the hazard be run for the first; so that, if it come safe, you may order the rest the same way, and, if it miscarry, you may have the other half to have re-course to for your supply.'
-- In the night, I took my first con-trivance, and got up in a tree, where I slept well; and the next morning proceeded upon my discovery; travelling nearly four miles, as I might judge by the length of the val-ley, keeping still due north, with a ridge of hills on the south and north side of me.
-- All I showed them, all I said to them, was perfectly amaz-ing; but above all, the captain admired my fortification, and how perfectly I had concealed my retreat with a grove of trees, which having been now planted nearly twenty years, and the trees growing much faster than in England, was become a little wood, so thick that it was impassable in any part of it but at that one side where I had reserved my lit-tle winding passage into it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some more of the Careys came to dinner, and they had the pleasure of sitting down nearly twenty to table, which Sir John observed with great contentment.
-- When their promised visit to the Park and consequent introduction to these young ladies took place, they found in the appearance of the eldest, who was nearly thirty, with a very plain and not a sensible face, nothing to admire; but in the other, who was not more than two or three and twenty, they acknowledged considerable beauty; her features were pretty, and she had a sharp quick eye, and a smartness of air, which though it did not give actual elegance or grace, gave distinction to her person. Their manners were particularly civil, and Elinor soon allowed them credit for some kind of sense, when she saw with what constant and judicious attention they were making themselves agreeable to Lady Middleton.
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