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hard, hardly<-->late, lately, recently
almost, nearly
almost与nearly意思相近，不过美国人习惯用almost。有时，almost只是比nearly更近了那么“一点点”。当描述即将达到目标或者接近于某数据等时，人们更习惯于用almost去表达“接近，但不完全一样”的意思，使得陈述的内容没有那么精确，明确。通常nearly不用在否定词前，如never，nobody，nothing，any等，习惯与almost连用。
It's nearly ten o'clock. (= perhaps 9.45)
It's almost ten o'clock. (= perhaps 9.57)
That fever nearly finished him off.
那场热病几乎送了他的命。
He plays golf nearly every weekend.
他差不多每个周末都打高尔夫球。
It's almost time to go.
差不多是该走的时候了。
The bridge is almost 2 kilometres long.
这座桥差不多有两公里长。
The value of our currency has sunk to almost nothing.
我们货币已经毛得简直分文不值了。
She has almost nobody to take up for her.
她几乎没有人支持。
hard, hardly<-->late, lately, recently
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