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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under this the Abraham Lincoln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour a considerable speed, but, nevertheless, insufficient to grapple with this gigantic cetacean.
-- I looked and looked till I was nearly blind, whilst Conseil kept repeating in a calm voice:"If, sir, you would not squint so much, you would see better!"
-- This pursuit lasted nearly three-quarters of an hour, without the frigate gaining two yards on the cetacean.
-- One particular feature was his eyes, rather far from each other, and which could take in nearly a quarter of the horizon at once.
-- Indeed, each man consumes, in one hour, the oxygen contained in more than 176 pints of air, and this air, charged (as then) with a nearly equal quantity of carbonic acid, becomes unbreathable.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was nearly one o'clock.
-- She had travelled all her life along the line of fulfilment, and it was nearly concluded.
-- Birkin could see only a strange, inexplicable, almost patternless collection of passions and desires and suppressions and traditions and mechanical ideas, all cast unfused and disunited into this slender, bright-faced man of nearly fifty, who was as unresolved now as he was at twenty, and as uncreated.
-- They all shine nearly like glass.
-- I know I want a perfect and complete relationship with you: and we've nearly got it we really have.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then 芒聙娄 I've lived eight days 芒聙娄 such days as no human being ever lived before!I'm nearly worn out, but I shan't sleep till I've told this thing over to you.
-- I expected to finish it on Friday; but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning.
-- A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three!
-- What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilisation, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes!I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me, more massive than any buildings of our own time, and yet, as it seemed, built of glimmer and mist.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,' Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, 'when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow!And you'd have deserved it, you little mischievous darling!What have you got to say for yourself?
-- 'Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,' Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), 'and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel and here are two castles walking arm in arm I don't think they can hear me,' she went on, as she put her head closer down, 'and I'm nearly sure they can't see me.
-- Alice was very anxious to be of use, and, as the poor little Lily was nearly screaming herself into a fit, she hastily picked up the Queen and set her on the table by the side of her noisy little daughter.
-- She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
-- 'Are we nearly there?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, "Bones, his pile."
-- She headed nearly due south, yawing, of course, all the time.
-- This had nearly tossed me off into the sea; and now I lost no time, crawled back along the bowsprit, and tumbled head foremost on the deck.
-- One thing I saw plainly: I must not simply retreat before him, or he would speedily hold me boxed into the bows, as a moment since he had so nearly boxed me in the stern.
-- The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred.
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