并且，在本书将近400页得内容中几乎没有一个原创的修辞。

But there's barely an original turn of phrase in the book's nearly 400 pages.

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该公园每年都会发生火灾；1988年的大森林火灾几乎烧掉了黄石公园将近三分之一的面积。

Forest fires occur in the park each year; in the large forest fires of 1988, nearly one third of the park burnt.

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我已在TED演奏了将近十年，可是我几乎很少演奏自己的新歌。主要原因是，根本就没有。

I've been playing TED for nearly a decade and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own.

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He didn't even begin to fulfill what we can think of as his epic promise until he was nearly fifty years old, until he had actually lost the use of his eyes, until he could no longer read, and until he could no longer use a pen to write.

但真正开始实行他要写史诗的愿望的时候,弥尔顿已经将近50岁了，那是他已经几乎,丧失了视力，不能再读书，不能执笔写作。

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