光辉的历程 永 我前行:almost、nearly;hardly、scarcely、hardly /scarcely any

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英语词汇(154

 

                                   almostnearly

           hardlyscarcelyhardly /scarcely any

 

                                   佳中

 

almost

nearly

 

 

almost    表示几乎、差不多,语气较强,指非常接近某一数值或与某情况相差无几。

nearly    也表示差不多、接近的意思,但语气比almost弱,nearly通常指比较具体的事物,离要

          求或某一数量已相差无几。

 

     1) We stay in almost every night and watch television.

          (我们几乎每个晚上都呆在家里看电视。)

     2) She almost out of mind with grief.

          (她过度悲伤,几乎快要精神错乱了。)

 

     3) It happened nearly at three o’clock in the deep night.

       (它发生在深夜将近3点钟。)

     4) The salesman showed her nearly all the hats in the shop.

      (售货员几乎把店里所有的帽子都拿给她看了)。)

 

 

hardly

scarcely

hardly /scarcely any

 

这组词语都可表示“几乎不”的意思。

 

hardly scarcely “几乎不”,是半否定词,两词可换用,常与can / could连用。

 

     1) He was so changed that I could hardly/scarcely recognize him when I met him at Smith’s.

        (我在史密斯家里见到他时发现他变化如此大,我几乎不认识他了。)

     2) The traffic was so heavy on the way to the station. We had hardly/scarcely enough time to catch the train.

         去车站的路上交通太拥挤,我们刚好有时间赶上火车(几乎没有足够的时间赶上火车。)

   3)I could hardly/scarcely believe that he was contemplating doing this dangerous attempt.

   (我几乎不能相信他会打算做这种危险的尝试。)

 

hardly /scarcely any  也可表示“几乎不”的意思,相当于almost no。置于名词前作定语。

 

      1)As usual, at the late hours of the night, there was hardly/scarcely any noise from the streets in the

            neighborhood.

          (像往常一样,在深夜街道上几乎没有任何噪音。)。

     2) In old China, here was hardly any machine-building industry, to say nothing of an electronic industry.

         (在旧中国,几乎没有什么机器制造工业,更不用说电子工业了。)