As you study a globe, you may notice that most of the large land areas are connected, or almost so.
当你观察地球仪时，你可能会注意到多数大块陆地是相连的，或基本上是相连的。
In both cases, the utility estimate doubles, or almost so, as the level increases from the base (reference) level through the mid, to the highest level.
在两者的情况，实效估计加倍，或几乎如此，当做同高的增加从这恶劣的(叁考)同高的经过中部，对最高的水平。
He and I will often talk about how surprised we are to be so happy together and how it's almost weird not to have negativity or fights in our relationship.
我和他经常谈到对我们在一起这么愉快有多么地惊讶，我们的关系中几乎没有负面情绪或对抗是多么地奇怪。
So almost all of my, uh, dates have been initiated by the woman or have been low-risk setups.
所以，几乎我的所有约会都是由女人主动的，或者说都是低风险方式。
I had admired and almost idolized Mencken as a writer long before I got to meet him, about 1930 or so.
在见到他之前，我一直把他当做作家来崇拜，几乎把他当做偶像；大约1930年时，我才见到了他。
They have identified for the first time those which will suffer catastrophic loss of life or be so crippled it will be almost impossible for them to recover.
科学家们首次确定了在发生灾难时，那些将出现巨大生命伤亡以及财产损失，严重到几乎没有可能复原的国家。
So at the end of every day you almost have to make a decision-whom are you going to insult by not dealing with his or her problems?
所以几乎每天结束的时候，你都必须做出决定——打算羞辱谁，就不要解决他或她的问题。
If you took a jazz-history course before 2000 or so, you almost certainly listened to The Smithsonian Collection of Classic jazz.
如果你在2000年之前修读爵士历史课程，那几乎可以肯定你不会错过史密森尼的经典爵士合集。
Almost nothing has been done so far to right these wrongs, or otherwise rein in the excesses of the financial system.
至今几乎没有采取任何行动去把这些错误扶正或是遏制金融系统的过度。
I've worked very hard to import this idea [Agile] to Japan to make the life of engineers easier. I worked so hard on it that I almost got fired, or at least I had to change jobs!
我很努力把这概念(敏捷)引入到日本简化工程师的工作，我卖力到差不多给炒掉，或者至少要转工！
Firms with so little equity have almost no ability to absorb temporary downturns or shocks, says Volker Beissenhirtz, an insolvency expert at Schultze & Braun, a German law firm.
拥有如此少股票的公司几乎没有能力吸收短期衰退或者震荡所带来的冲击，Volker Beissenhirtz如是说（他是德国Schultze &Braun法律公司中破产方面的专家）。
But almost half of the 14m unemployed have been out of a job for six months or more, and so would no longer qualify for benefits under the rules that will apply from January 1st.
但是在140万失业人口中，几乎半数失业者失业时间超过六个月，因此，这部分人群将不再享有从一月一日起开始施行的新补助的补贴。
Almost all JSP or servlet applications contain these two tags, so there's no need to discuss them here. (See Resources for links to material that discusses servlet programming in general.)
几乎所有的jsp或servlet应用程序都包含这两个标记，所以无需再作讨论(参见参考资料，获取讨论servlet编程的资源链接)。
Drum up the courage to temporarily disconnect. (the possibility of there being a terrible emergency in the next hour or so is almost nil.)
鼓起勇气暂时中断联系吧(在接下来的一个小时中发生紧急事件的可能性几乎为零)。
Because they are so well adapted to clothing, we know that body lice or clothing lice almost certainly didn't exist until clothing came about in humans.
因为他们很好地适应了衣服，所以我们知道身体上的虱子或衣服上的虱子在人类穿上衣服之前几乎肯定不存在。
In almost all cases, mediations require access to the message itself so that it can be manipulated, logged, transformed, or whatever the specific use case may be.
几乎在任何情况下中介都需要访问消息本身，以便操作、记录和转换消息，不管在任何特定用例下，都是如此。
Each time these events happened, almost without fail, I would smoke - either that, or I'd get the urge to do so.
每当这些事情发生，几乎是无一例外的，我就会开始抽烟，否则我就会有强烈的冲动。
At present, I know him so well, that I think him really handsome; or at least, almost so.
现在我很了解他，觉得他确实漂亮，至少可以说几乎是漂亮的。
They choose people whose achievements are so great that they're almost impossible to emulate, like Albert Einstein or Martin Luther King.
他们所选择的那些人的成就如此伟大，以至于他们几乎不可能效仿之，就像阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦亦或马丁·路德金。
Were the British couple really so tiny or are the Obama's so large that they dwarfed the royals almost entirely?
真的是这对英国夫妇太瘦小了，还是奥巴马夫妇太高大了，以至于让英国皇族显得矮小了呢？
I'd never seen so many flowers in one place - it took us almost 30 minutes to cover one or two gardens there.
我从没见过哪个地方有这么多的鲜花——我们花了30多分钟才逛完这里一两个花园。
Or when we were leaving the woods I could feel Alec right behind me, almost breathing over my shoulder, so I turned to ask him something and saw he was a good 30 feet behind me.
当我们要离开森林的时候，我感觉到亚历克就在我身后，就在我肩旁呼吸，我转过身想问他点事情，却看到他在离我足有30英尺的地方。
The executable parts of a scenario, where you can build the actual DSL, are written in plain English (or almost any other language), so there's virtually no special syntax to learn.
场景可以执行的部分，就是你可以构建实际领域特定语言的地方，用普通的英语编写（或者任何其它语言），因此几乎不需要学什么特别的语法。
So, while you should make sure to only eat sugar in moderation, a small taste of ice cream, cookies, or chocolate can help you to lower your stress levels almost instantly.
那么，只要你确定摄入的糖分适中，象一小份冰激凌、饼干、巧克力，压力都能马上减轻。
All have thrown thousands upon thousands out of the workforce, which is why the nation's unemployment rate has almost doubled in the past year or so to around 9.5 percent.
很多行业裁了数以千万计的员工，这也就导致近年来国家失业率翻了一番，直逼9.5个百分点。
So great is the level of costuming and role-playing that it’s almost impossible to know whether animegao cosplayers are men or women.
由于戏服和扮演水平之高以至于几乎无法判断他们是男是女。
Over the past decade or so, "a large number of well-trained scientists have been coming back from almost every leading group in North America, Japan, and Europe," Shuai says.
在过去的十年里，“很多训练有素的科学家从北美，日本，欧洲等领先的研究小组回国。”帅提到。
Over the past decade or so, "a large number of well-trained scientists have been coming back from almost every leading group in North America, Japan, and Europe," Shuai says.
在过去的十年里，“很多训练有素的科学家从北美，日本，欧洲等领先的研究小组回国。”帅提到。
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