喜樂美語
  1. 1rA2/ˈɔːlmoʊst/ · /ˈɔːlməʊst/幾乎

    Nearly, but not completely or not quite.

    Nearly幾乎 but not completely or not quite但不是完全，也不是剛好

    示範例句 · Example

    Have you almost finished your homework?

    逐字你幾乎完成你的作業了嗎？

    「almost」是「差一點點就到」的感覺——很接近某個程度或數量，但還沒完全到達。可以放在動詞、形容詞、數字、all／every／nothing 前面，例如 almost finished（快做完了，但還沒）、almost everyone（幾乎每個人）。跟 nearly 意思幾乎一樣，almost 在美式英語更常用。

    常見搭配

    • almost all/every/everything

      幾乎全部／每一個

      nearly all of something

      Almost every seat was taken.

    • almost certainly

      幾乎可以確定

      very probably

      The story is almost certainly true.

    • almost as ... as

      幾乎跟…一樣

      nearly the same as

      She runs almost as fast as her coach.

    用法接近

    aboutroughly

    意思相反

    completelyexactly

core核心畫面

Picture standing right at the edge of something, one small step short of arriving. You can see the finish line and you're nearly there — but you haven't actually crossed it.

可以想成一個畫面：你已經走到某件事的邊緣，差最後一小步就到了。終點就在眼前、幾乎要碰到——但還沒真正跨過去。almost 永遠帶著那個「就差一點」的缺口，所以它不是「到了」，而是「快到了」。

用法接近

aboutroughly

意思相反

completelyexactly

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

almostadv/ˈɔːl.məʊst/

  • 1

    Very close to, but not quite.

    • Almost all people went there.
    • We almost missed the train.
  • 2

    mathematicssciencesUp to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).

    • almost all
    • almost no
  • 3

    mathematicsmeasure-theoryprobability-theoryUp to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).

    • almost everywhere
    • almost nowhere

almostnoun/ˈɔːl.məʊst/

  • 1

    informalSomething or someone that doesn't quite make it.

    • In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.

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