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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Robert flung himself on his neck in such tumultuous delight that he nearly threw the worthy secretary down, and made him say, "Rude petit bonhomme.
-- Almost breathless with the swift motion, frozen with the cold air, which pierced them through, and blinded with the whirling snow, they gasped for breath, and became exhausted and nearly inanimate, only retaining their hold of the rocks by a powerful instinct of self-preservation.
-- Paganel's admiration increased with every step, and he had nearly exhausted his vocabulary of adjectives by his loud exclamations, to the astonishment of the Patagonian, to whom the birds, and the swans, and the prairies were every day things.
-- But this was not the Indian's reason, and so Glenarvan saw when he lifted the powder-flask, showed him it was nearly empty.
-- The storm was nearly over.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
-- It was nearly nine o'clock when I found myself in the sitting-room once more.
-- 'I don't know much of British life yet, for I have spent nearly all my time in the States and in Canada.
-- I sat up with Sir Henry in his rooms until nearly three o'clock in the morning, but no sound of any sort did we hear except the chiming clock upon the stairs.
-- So far as the case of the Hound goes, however, I will give you the course of events as nearly as I can, and you will suggest anything which I may have forgotten.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their favour increased; they could not be spared; Sir John would not hear of their going; and in spite of their numerous and long arranged engagements in Exeter, in spite of the absolute necessity of returning to fulfill them immediately, which was in full force at the end of every week, they were prevailed on to stay nearly two months at the park, and to assist in the due celebration of that festival which requires a more than ordinary share of private balls and large dinners to proclaim its importance.
-- Elinor found, when the evening was over, that disposition is not materially altered by a change of abode, for although scarcely settled in town, Sir John had contrived to collect around him, nearly twenty young people, and to amuse them with a ball.
-- Our ages were nearly the same, and from our earliest years we were playfellows and friends.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the limit of her distress had been nearly reached, she was beckoned to by a man at one of the many desks within the near-by railing.
-- They were a fair type of nearly the lowest order of shop-girls-- careless, slouchy, and more or less pale from confinement.
-- Such women as he had known were of nearly one type, selfish, ignorant, flashy.
-- They rambled weakly forward, losing nearly all the expression which was intended, and making the thing dull in the extreme, when Carrie came in.
-- She would have done nearly as well with a block of wood.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground hard packed, and no boards.
-- I heard one man say it was nearly three o'clock, and he hoped daylight wouldn't wait more than about a week longer.
-- They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watch- ing with all their might.
-- He had a blanket around his head, and his head was nearly in the fire.
-- He said that when I went in the texas and he crawled back to get on the raft and found her gone he nearly died, because he judged it was all up with HIM anyway it could be fixed; for if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would sell him South, sure.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and again he pulled and tugged at the collar which nearly choked him and cried out in a weak voice: "I deserve it!Yes, I deserve it!I have been nothing but a truant and a vagabond.
扩展阅读：