英语词汇“almost”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

almost

(ɔːlmoʊst )

adverb [ADVERB before verb] A2

You use almost to indicate that something is not completely the case but is nearly the case.

The couple had been dating for almost three years.

Storms have been hitting almost all of Britain recently.

The effect is almost impossible to describe.

He was almost as tall as Pete, but skinnier.

The arrested man will almost certainly be kept at this police station.

He contracted Spanish flu, which almost killed him.

Synonyms: nearly, about, approaching, close to

Collocations:

almost apologetic

He added: 'He was almost apologetic.

The Sun (2015)

I was almost apologetic for some of the things we did and some of the songs we'd done.

The Sun (2013)

To me it was very poignant, almost apologetic.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

His square face shows little emotion, his tone is almost apologetic.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Ford sounded almost apologetic about the amount he kicked.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

almost certain

Any hole in his space suit would therefore be an almost certain death sentence.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

You need to be race-fit, preferably in form and if you worry about getting hurt then you're almost certain to.

The Sun (2014)

It is absurd and makes it look almost certain it will be kicked into the long grass.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

The era of big bonuses for bankers seems almost certain to end after ministers joined ranks in condemnation of the payments.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Bin the small ones; they are almost certain not to flower.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

almost childlike

Looking back now, my trust in some sort of mythical cosmic calculation seems almost childlike in its naivety.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

In fact, he has an almost childlike admiration for art and artists.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

He has an almost childlike zest for talking up his business and explaining how it can still be improved.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

He is almost childlike in his inability to rein in his destructive impulse.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

They speak of his feelings of almost childlike wonder.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

almost comical

It was an almost comical injury.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

At times the situation was almost comical.

The Sun (2012)

Some may find the sudden spurt of fake blood around his mouth almost comical.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

The look that came over the face of the new nurse was almost comical.

Christianity Today (2000)

almost complete

The process of re-recording the two tracks that charted was fairly painless because the songs were almost complete.

The Sun (2008)

An east-west coast-to-coast electric highway is almost complete.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Or, indeed, the almost complete lack of it.

The Sun (2016)

It is also a striking contrast with the almost complete failure of co-ordination of wider economic and monetary policy.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

almost constant

In the past six months bases in the port have come under almost constant bombardment by rebels.

The Sun (2007)

Industrial action is an almost constant threat.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

I have osteoporosis, pain in my hip joints, almost constant nausea and muscle wastage.

The Sun (2012)

almost daily

The two men spoke almost daily by satellite telephone.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

But it also helped to deflect rancour at a time when management and the print unions were locked in almost daily battle.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

We were dealing with material - nonpublic, price-sensitive information - almost daily.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Once the almost daily image alterations settled a bit, they would be distinguishable.

Anita Anderson SUMMER OF SECRETS (2003)

The public sauna baths we used almost daily to lose unwanted pounds were pretty basic.

Frankie Dettori with Jonathan Powell FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori (2004)

almost devoid of

The old town is almost devoid of chain stores.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

It is fortified with calcium but almost devoid of protein.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

The GCSE maths exam is almost devoid of maths.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

almost double

Almost double the number of real estate companies went into administration, while the increase for hotels, bars and restaurants was 86 per cent.

Times, Sunday Times

Prices start at almost double what you'd pay for the cheapest version of the 996 but here you get what you pay for.

Times, Sunday Times

Experts say the 175,000 car could almost double sales.

The Sun

I've now been on the menopausal nasal spray for almost double the expected time.

The Sun

The company hopes this will almost double by the end of the 2009-10 financial year to ¤370m.

Times, Sunday Times

almost empty

As the man moved away, Webb's bleeper sounded, loud in the almost empty bar.

Fraser, Anthea THE GOSPEL MAKERS

It was almost empty except for some soldiers who leaned drunkenly against the counter.

Appiganesi, Lisa DREAMS OF INNOCENCE (2002)

Some of the rooms were almost empty by midnight.

The Sun (2016)

The move is expected to result in first-class carriages running almost empty while there is standing room only in standard class.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

He then stared at the almost empty whisky bottle on the night table.

Wright, Richard THE OUTSIDER (1989)

almost endless

Then it's an almost endless stream of coffee until after lunch.

The Sun (2014)

In the wealthy West there has been a disastrous fulfilment of a dream that our struggling ancestors had: for an almost endless abundance of food.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

The range of opportunities is almost endless, from construction management to civil engineering, from quantity surveying to architecture.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

The catalogue of wasteful, ineffective programmes is almost endless.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

almost extinct

They then became almost extinct, and we have forgotten that we need to check and be vigilant about these things.

Times,Sunday Times

Decent interest on cash accounts might be almost extinct, but double-digit returns can still be achieved if you look elsewhere.

Times, Sunday Times

On top, they get generous final salary-linked pensions which are almost extinct elsewhere.

The Sun

They were left almost extinct in the 20th century when their nests were destroyed by earlier cutting of the hay for silage.

Times, Sunday Times

They are almost extinct, with about 100-112 of them left.

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almost giddy

After her first all clear, she became almost giddy with the triumph of it all.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

You are on the ground and you're almost giddy.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

Most disturbing is the almost giddy pleasure they take in each other's unhappiness.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

almost hysterical

I am leant forwards over my knees, rocking in my chair, almost hysterical with frustration and despair.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

He seemed almost hysterical with excitement now.

Hibbert, Christopher Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781 (1990)

There was a shocked, almost hysterical reaction.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

almost identical

All of the volunteers had gained almost identical muscle strength and size regardless of the mass of their weights.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

That extra spending is substantial, despite incomes per person being almost identical.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

He is shoulder to shoulder with his brother, again looking almost identical.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

Another is almost identical, but he is missing.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

The images were almost identical to how the brain looks when it is on heroin.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

almost impenetrable

AT first glance, the documents are almost impenetrable.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

This 10-man wall looked almost impenetrable.

The Sun (2012)

He was a stickler for defensive discipline and organisation, and it made us almost impenetrable.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

For the man for whom these lavish arrangements had been made had spent his life behind an almost impenetrable shroud of secrecy.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

It is considered to be almost impenetrable.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

almost imperceptible

Her face was almost imperceptible backed by the last remnants of the day's light.

James W. Huston THE SHADOWS OF POWER (2002)

Stone looked at Sarah inquiringly; she responded with an almost imperceptible nod.

Stuart Woods WORST FEARS REALIZED (2003)

Louis made an almost imperceptible gesture to Annette, who rose to her feet.

Harcourt, Palma DOUBLE DECEIT (2003)

almost impossible

Once alight, a thatch fire is almost impossible to control; in a thatched home, fire prevention is vital because detection is nearly always too late.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

He has also acknowledged that exposing the ' deep state' was almost impossible.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

A running battle of almost impossible intensity then took place along a narrow cobbled causeway, leading up to the central square.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

For most of us, it doesn't matter how hard you work — it's still almost impossible to keep your head above water.

The Sun (2013)

As they are so small that an eggcup holds 500 of them, they are almost impossible to clean up.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

almost inaudible

The commentary on Renaissance Revolution was almost inaudible.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

The result is a hiss inaudible, or almost inaudible, to human ears.

Schneider, Hermann & Schneider, Leo The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language (1988)

He has an almost inaudible cry, but a cough that could wake the dead.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

There was a time when the film soundtrack was often played at such a low volume as to be almost inaudible.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

His skin was hard and his breathing was almost inaudible.

Len Deighton Bomber

almost incomprehensible

But from the vantage point of 2021, such optimism seems almost incomprehensible.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

For many over 40, it is almost incomprehensible.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

The vista is almost incomprehensible.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

He felt that he had been looking on at an almost incomprehensible thing.

Frances Hodgson Burnett Emily Fox-Seton (1901)

It is almost incomprehensible that this has happened.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

almost inconceivable

The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.

The Sun (2014)

The arrest of such powerful men was almost inconceivable a decade ago unless they were direct rivals of the incumbent president and possible coup plotters.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Such an exodus seems almost inconceivable.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

It is almost inconceivable they will allow the transfer window to close without taking a peek through it.

The Sun (2006)

It is almost inconceivable that her diet will not lead to serious health issues.

The Sun (2010)

almost indistinguishable from

His style is almost indistinguishable from mine.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Today town and country are almost indistinguishable but sixty years ago it was very different.

Smout, T.C. & Wood, Sydney Scottish Voices 1745-1960 (1990)

FAKE tickets for pop concerts and football matches are almost indistinguishable from the real thing, an expert warned yesterday.

The Sun (2007)

There are just as many people crowding the screen as before, but their tiny images are now almost indistinguishable.

Wills, Christopher The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness (1993)

The vehicle in the picture is almost indistinguishable from its eight-year-old predecessor.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

almost inevitable

Many of us felt that with ever-rising staff-student ratios, this was almost inevitable, as students had less and less contact with lecturers.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

The violent narrative shocks leave the audience reeling in a story in which life is cheap and untimely death is almost inevitable.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

This is almost inevitable with all that lifting and bending.

The Sun (2014)

It is almost inevitable, and certainly desirable, that contributory benefits should continue to decline as a proportion of social security spending.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

This could easily have been a lead story, especially when it is almost inevitable that Russian protesters will get hold of it and use it against him.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

almost infinite

Are the almost infinite distractions of the web making us lose self-control?

Times, Sunday Times

With the digital revolution, there will be an almost infinite variety of ways for film-makers to connect with an audience.

Times, Sunday Times

Swiftly the graphics evolved and the games were redesigned: players could play alone, rather than having to gather in groups, and in almost infinite numbers.

Times, Sunday Times

The choices on this diverse continent are almost infinite.

Times, Sunday Times

Every year more stations are added to its almost infinite capacity.

Times, Sunday Times

almost instantaneous

My recovery was almost instantaneous.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

It was a bit like having a very strong cup of coffee, except the effects were almost instantaneous.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

Well, it was almost instantaneous after that.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

And the results were almost instantaneous.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

This will reduce the current payment clearing times of between three to five days to almost instantaneous transfers.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

almost invisible

Sales of these cars are rising from an almost invisible base, but they are rising fast enough to pose a serious question.

Times, Sunday Times

The almost invisible rates of returns on offer from banks, for example, should encourage investment in riskier investments such as their funds.

Times, Sunday Times

These were clichés but the truth was, indeed, that he often became almost invisible.

Times, Sunday Times

A towering wall renders the huge new embassy almost invisible from ground level.

Times, Sunday Times

His icon was almost invisible from the tamata hanging upon it.

Times, Sunday Times

almost irrelevant

The paralysingly short time frame, the brutality of it all, renders coaching expertise almost irrelevant.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

Those things are almost irrelevant in the urban context as far as their success.

Christianity Today (2000)

They ask questions of stories that are almost irrelevant.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

almost irresistible

The temptation to take the news personally is almost irresistible.

Christianity Today (2000)

It is a challenge that is proving almost irresistible to the wonderful winger.

The Sun (2008)

The strength of the pound makes Berlin almost irresistible.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

almost limitless

The range of architectural styles on the coast is immense, and the options are almost limitless.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

The capital available is almost limitless.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Online play will give you almost limitless potential.

The Sun (2009)

The opportunities the technology presents are almost limitless.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

There is need to reduce the almost limitless possible tasks to a manageable number.

Peter F. Drucker MANAGING FOR RESULTS (1986)

almost miraculous

She had an almost miraculous ability to get out of the most dangerous conditions or unexpected accidents.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

Otherwise the house and its contents had an escape which seemed almost miraculous.

Amanda Mackenzie Stuart Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age (2005)

How does one explain the rise of an empire so rapid that it seems almost miraculous?

The Times Literary Supplement (2011)

An almost miraculous period in the history of science is brought to life against its human and political background.

The Times Literary Supplement (2010)

almost mystical

Used in place of water it will bring an almost mystical richness to soups, stews and gravies.

The Sun (2012)

Economic historians now consider that an almost mystical attachment to the 19th-century gold standard turned a normal business downturn into an economic calamity.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

They conjure up in no time at all a Nordic romanticism ardent, strange and almost mystical.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Even from a distance he radiated an elemental, almost mystical aura.

Martin, Joy THE IMAGE OF LAURA (2002)

The scenery was mind-blowing and the wild horses and goats and wispy clouds made it feel almost mystical up there.

The Sun (2012)

almost mythical

There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Death suddenly seems unreal, almost mythical.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

It was almost mythical, his prowess and his grandeur.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

As a result, the collection came to take on an almost mythical status.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Carthage holds an almost mythical place in the western imagination.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

almost nonexistent

The slightest bit of adverse weather and digital reception is almost nonexistent.

The Sun (2008)

In most modern industries it is by now almost nonexistent except for women workers.

Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)

Its appeal is almost nonexistent today.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

His plots are simple, almost nonexistent.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

almost overwhelming

There are an almost overwhelming number of sessions covering everything from easing back pain to banishing period pain.

Times, Sunday Times (2018)

The temptation to go for the high melodrama was almost overwhelming till I looked at Jett.

Val McDermid DEAD BEAT (2002)

almost palpable

Everything about her had energy, a vibrance that was almost palpable.

Times, Sunday Times

I wasn't especially surprised though, but felt an almost palpable sense of relief with some.

Christianity Today

While it wasn't ever verbalized, the negative expectation was almost palpable.

Christianity Today

At times, his influence on me has been almost palpable.

Times, Sunday Times

For the sense of anticipation of change was almost palpable.

Times, Sunday Times

almost surreal

Pay growth is so subdued as to be almost surreal.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

He made the details of the setting so vividly real that they became almost surreal.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Some of the exchanges seem almost surreal.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

They possess an intensity that feels almost surreal.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

almost unanimous

The almost unanimous response was not to waste time on phone calls.

Times, Sunday Times

And analysts were almost unanimous in warning that the 25-year downtrend in long-term interest rates had been broken once and for all.

Times, Sunday Times

The same poll found that scientists were almost unanimous, with 98 per cent accepting the idea.

Times, Sunday Times

The decision was vindicated as the critics were almost unanimous in their praise and nine million viewers tuned in.

Times, Sunday Times

Critics have greeted it with almost unanimous acclaim.

Times, Sunday Times

almost unbearable

As a portrait in music of a family's struggle to come to terms with loss, it is at once compelling and almost unbearable.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

The searing heat of the day was almost unbearable.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Forced to lie on a concrete floor with only a thin layer of straw underneath him, he was in almost unbearable pain.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Her disdain is almost unbearable.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

The closeness this engendered could sometimes be almost unbearable.

Patrick Bishop FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940 (2003)

almost unbelievable

He can do amazing - almost unbelievable - things with a football.

Times, Sunday Times

Well, officially, you're going to get about 60mpg, which sounds almost unbelievable.

Times, Sunday Times

We want to overlook the almost unbelievable problems we face today.

Christianity Today

After you have conducted it a number of times, however, you see the strong, almost unbelievable logic holding the piece together.

Times, Sunday Times

It seems almost unbelievable that both parties could be reverting so blindly to type.

Times, Sunday Times

almost unimaginable

A world without colour would be almost unimaginable.

de Jong, Eveline Alternative Health Care for Children (1989)

Banks had received financial support on an almost unimaginable scale, he said.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

It's a scene of almost unimaginable hysteria.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

It was'a scene of almost unimaginable horror.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

That such violence could erupt in such a gentle place seems almost unimaginable.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

almost universal

And she received almost universal adulation.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

They were designed to replace the wooden clogs which had become almost universal.

Max Hastings Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007)

The direct primary system became almost universal.

Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)

Though an almost universal human trait, crying is something of a mystery to science.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

almost unlimited

And future lasers may play an important role in fusion reactors, allowing us to obtain almost unlimited power by fusing the nuclei of hydrogen atoms.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Smartphones have given gangs an 'almost unlimited opportunity' to antagonise each other, she added.

The Sun (2018)

But the potential downside can be almost unlimited.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

Therefore the press can have almost unlimited access with the proviso that they do not get in the way too much.

Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)

almost unnoticed

The purpose is to catch an almost unnoticed moment of significance, with the models seemingly unaware and unposed.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

Sci-fi has crept, almost unnoticed and usually unacknowledged, from popular culture into popular technology.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

And yet it was precisely because it passed almost unnoticed that it seemed so distressing.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

almost unprecedented

It has faced almost unprecedented problems over the past few months.

Times, Sunday Times

He has listened to us, which feels almost unprecedented.

Times, Sunday Times

High streets are undergoing almost unprecedented upheaval because of the widespread downturn in consumer confidence and as shoppers buy more goods over the internet.

Times,Sunday Times

And yet over that period we saw an almost unprecedented build-up of corporate and household debts that brought the world economy to its knees.

Times, Sunday Times

A further 9% will cut pay - a measure almost unprecedented in the experience of today's workers.

Times, Sunday Times

almost unthinkable

Indeed the almost unthinkable must now be considered.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

It is almost unthinkable that that could happen.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

It is almost unthinkable but we are all getting quicker.

The Sun (2013)

That would be almost unthinkable now.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

It's becoming almost unthinkable in modern life that we should have to wait for anything.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

almost useless

A key reason was that predictions of fossil fuel use rely heavily on economic predictions, which have been shown to be almost useless.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

But there are a shameful number of schools that are almost useless.

The Sun (2017)

You know it is on its way but that knowledge is almost useless.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

He knew that he was almost useless.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Translations:

Chinese: 几乎

Japanese: ほとんど