He was held hostage for almost a year.
他被扣为人质几近一年。
The wine is aged for almost a year in oak barrels.
这葡萄酒在橡木桶里陈了将近一年。
The tight race is almost a duplicate of the elections in Georgia and South Dakota last month that pitted a Republican challenger against a Democratic incumbent.
这次紧张的竞选几乎是上个月在佐治亚州和南达科他州选举的翻版，由一个共和党的挑战者竞争一个现任的民主党人。
This is almost a pest-control service.
这几乎是一项虫害防治服务。
His body, not counting the tail, is almost a mile long.
他身长将近一英里，这还不算上尾巴。
When you add water to sand, the mixture turned into almost a gel.
当你往砂子当中加水时，混合物几乎变成凝胶。
Stand him against a standard growth chart and he is almost a head shorter than he should be at his age.
当他靠着一张标准成长图表站着时，就可以看到他几乎比他的实际年龄矮了一头。
Toad got down on the step, and as the train slowed down to almost a walking pace, he heard the driver call out, "Now, jump!"
蟾蜍踩下踏板，火车减速至与步行差不多时，他听到司机一声喊：“现在，跳！”
With palm trees swaying over almost a mile of sparkling sand, there is no better place for you to let loose entirely and simply sway along with the breeze.
棕榈树在将近一英里长的闪闪发光的沙滩上摇摆，没有比这更好的地方让你完全放松，简单地随着微风摇摆。
简几乎是个大人了。
He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate.
他有将近四分之一的选民的支持。
After almost a month we get such syrup.
大概一个月后，我们会得到这样的糖浆。
Almost a seventh of China has been under heavy smog.
中国近七分之一的地区一直处于重度雾霾之下。
People spend almost a third of their lives doing one thing: sleeping.
人们一生中几乎三分之一的时间都花在一件事上：睡觉。
Spending almost a full day in the car with a 70-year-old woman could be boring.
和一个70岁的老太太在车里待上一整天可能会很无聊。
Parents eat the equivalent of almost a pepperoni pizza of saturated fat each week.
父母每周吃进肚里的饱和脂肪数量相当于一个辣香肠比萨饼内的含量。
When he was 44, he returned to his motherland and the country's space research was almost a blank.
他44岁时回归祖国，那时国内在太空研究领域几乎是一片空白。
Opera was commonplace in Italy for almost a thousand years before it became commercial as a venture.
上千年来，歌剧在意大利一直都是很普通的事物，直到它变成一种被商业化的项目。
Many years ago, at the beginning of my athlete career, I was injured in the Addis Ababa Marathon, and I could not walk for almost a week.
许多年以前，在我运动员生涯刚开始时，我在亚的斯亚贝巴马拉松中受伤了，我几乎一周都不能走路。
To work it as a feature film, Mr.Carré's book had to be condensed into 127 minutes, almost a third of the length of the television version.
要将它制作成一部故事长片，卡雷先生的书必须被浓缩进127分钟之内，这几乎只是电视版本时长的三分之一。
The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.
法国人丹尼斯·帕潘在詹姆斯·瓦特出生前近百年就有了制造蒸汽机的想法，但是他从来没有足够的资金去建造这样一台机器。
The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost a year round that people eat many times a day.
地中海地区气候温暖、阳光充足，几乎一年到头都出产大量新鲜水果和蔬菜，这些果蔬是人们每天都要吃许多次的。
I once had a fever for almost a week.
我有一次发了近一个星期的高烧。
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