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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Of course I can't argue the matter, because I know only my own case; but my doctor gave me money and he had very little to pay my jour-ney back, besides having kept me at his own expense, while there, for nearly two years.'
-- All honour to my respected father's memory but he uncommonly nearly killed me, all the same.
-- Next morning my father happened to give me two government loan bonds to sell, worth nearly five thousand roubles each.
-- 'Four years!and I was in the same place nearly all the time, in one village.'
-- The general very nearly smiled, but thought better of it and kept his smile back.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not so great, nor nearly so great, as Ajax the son of Telamon.
-- When they were close up with one another, the son of Atreus missed his aim, and Iphidamas hit him on the girdle below the cuirass and then flung himself upon him, trusting to his strength of arm; the girdle, however, was not pierced, nor nearly so, for the point of the spear struck against the silver and was turned aside as though it had been lead: King Agamemnon caught it from his hand, and drew it towards him with the fury of a lion; he then drew his sword, and killed Iphidamas by striking him on the neck.
-- The horses feared the rebuke of their master, and went faster, so that they were soon nearly up with the others.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the grass by the forge were three yellow and chocolate waggons and some picturesque strangers of both sexes putting up a cocoanut shy.
-- Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off.
-- "You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index.
-- As a matter of fact I was worked out; the intense stress of nearly four years' continuous work left me incapable of any strength of feeling.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You were nearly dead,' said my interlocutor.
-- You've been insensible for nearly thirty hours.'
-- I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.
-- I took it, and began gnawing it, as serenely as possible, in spite of a certain trepidation and the nearly intolerable closeness of the den.
-- The man had a rifle; and when his body was found, one of the barrels was curved into the shape of an S and very nearly bitten through.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cun-ningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
-- If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
-- So he hurried on, keeping to the rough road that ran down the valley, and followed it at a steady jog-trot for nearly twenty miles, till he came to a country that he did not know.
-- From that height you could see across the tops of the trees down to the plain below; but what Mowgli looked at was the sides of the ravine, and he saw with a great deal of satisfaction that they ran nearly straight up and down, while the vines and creepers that hung over them would give no foothold to a tiger who want-ed to get out.
-- Mowgli went on with his work, but it was nearly twilight before he and the wolves had drawn the great gay skin clear of the body.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole of that wilderness, in which the latter incidents of the legend occurred, is nearly a wilderness still, though the red man has entirely deserted this part of the state.
-- '* * As each nation of the Indians had its language or its dialect, they usually gave different names to the same plac-es, though nearly all of their appellations were descriptive of the object.
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