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：
-- By uniting the several detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little superior in numbers.
-- His legs and thighs were thin, nearly to emaciation, but of extraor-dinary length; and his knees would have been considered tremendous, had they not been outdone by the broader foundations on which this false superstructure of blended human orders was so profanely reared.
-- While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sun-burned and long-faced com-plexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.
-- There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine-pounder from a mud breastwork, only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.
-- The schoolmaster now bestowed both whip and heel upon the starveling ribs of old Gunpowder, who dashed forward, snuffling and snorting, but came to a stand just by the bridge, with a suddenness that had nearly sent his rider sprawling over his head.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could understand it in a young man, but I think it's horrible in a man of his years, with children who are nearly grown up.
-- I was vexed, for I felt that I had been made a fool of, and I nearly turned away without making an enquiry.
-- Strickland looked at me thoughtfully for nearly a minute.
-- Chapter XXXVIIII did not see him again for nearly a week.
-- Poor soul, she was so proud; and though it nearly broke her heart to part from me, she smiled, and would not show me her grief.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if it had been at that instant relieved of a new part of its weight, it mounted to a height of 1,500 feet, and here it met a current of wind, which instead of taking it directly to the coast, carried it in a nearly parallel direction.
-- The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore, and nearly half a mile from the place where the castaways had landed.
-- It was then nearly six o'clock.
-- The castaways, although their strength was nearly exhausted, still marched courageously forward, hoping every moment to meet with a sudden angle which would set them in the first direction.
-- What was their disappointment, when, after trudging nearly two miles, having reached an elevated point composed of slippery rocks, they found themselves again stopped by the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a great point too that Kit himself was flattered by the sensation he created, and after several efforts to preserve his gravity, burst into a loud roar, and so stood with his mouth wide open and his eyes nearly shut, laughing violently.
-- CHAPTER 2After combating, for nearly a week, the feeling which impelled me to revisit the place I had quitted under the circumstances already detailed, I yielded to it at length; and determining that this time I would present myself by the light of day, bent my steps thither early in the morning.
-- Thank God I acknowledge none!Nor need you either,' he added, turning to the old man, 'if you were not as weak as a reed, and nearly as senseless.'
-- 'When I think,' said he, 'of the many years many in thy short life that thou has lived with me; of my monotonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitude in which thou has grown to be what thou art, and in which thou hast lived apart from nearly all thy kind but one old man; I sometimes fear I have dealt hardly by thee, Nell.'
-- CHAPTER 5Whether Mr Quilp took any sleep by snatches of a few winks at a time, or whether he sat with his eyes wide open all night long, certain it is that he kept his cigar alight, and kindled every fresh one from the ashes of that which was nearly consumed, without requiring the assistance of a candle.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It nearly sent me to sleep."
-- Returning to the ward where eight children lay in their beds, Maslova began to remake one of the beds, by order of the Sister, and, leaning over too far with the sheet, slipped and nearly fell.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What is more, I have a big machine nearly finished in there" he indicated the laboratory "and when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account."
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