It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

which is significant is that lot got reading about those websites but almost no one saw them, because they were removed from public view within a few minutes after the shooting took place in the high school.

重要的是,很多人都知道了他们的网站,但没有几个人真正上过这个网站，因为这一事实被掩盖于公众眼前,不过几分钟的时间在枪击案,发生在高中里。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And you're saying "oh no," because the little line is almost at empty.

然后你说，“哦，不！”指针已经快指向空的一端了。

I'm about to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And there is almost no effort to combine the numerous federal regulatory agencies into a single financial regulator.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

So it's almost as if functions really are useless because they have no ultimate effect.

所以几乎是函数是没起作用的,因为它们没有最终的效果。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Some take more work. Others take almost no work but may require waiting up to a year.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

That's almost--no that's more than 100--that's 206 years.

那将近,不,超过100年,有206年

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

But the first key issue is that it's good in and of itself-- almost needs no justification.

但首先的关键问题是快乐本身是好的-,几乎无需辩解。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

At the time there was almost no physics education offered in Italy He married Laura Capon, who also was a scientist, in nineteen twenty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Good question. Actually, I've got to get rid of this candy, so since it was a good question, here you go. Nice catch. Almost. Sorry. OK. No, I'm not. I'm sorry. I thought you had it, and then I've got the wrong glasses on and I realized you didn't, so I will, ah come back to that later.

问得好,事实上我不得不给你这个糖果，因为你问的很好，接好，不错，抱歉，对不起，我以为你接到了，我带错了眼镜而且,我意识到你没带错，所以我会待会再讲。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

There is almost no disagreement over the main ideas of evolution in the scientific community.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Where even if you can find somebody who's going to be a first quartile manager, there's almost no difference between the first quartile return and the third quartile return.

即使你能找到一位,一流的经理人,但在债券市场收益中,第一和第三个四分位数之间几乎没有区别

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And,there were almost no community activities, resources or jobs for the mentally disabled.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

You want to spend your time and energy pursuing the most inefficiently priced asset classes because there's an enormous reward for identifying the top quartile venture capitalist and almost no reward for being in the top quartile of the high- quality bond universe.

你应该投入所有的时间和精力,去追逐最不能有效定价的资产,因为在那里才能通过一流的风投经理人,获得巨额的投资回报,而在债券市场,即使债券优质,经理人一流,回报微乎甚微

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But there was almost no information about the person behind these famous cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

So the total number of shares is almost-- the tendency to do splits is a cultural thing; it's of no real significance.

所以股票总数几乎是个,这种分割的趋势是文化使然,没有实际的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Tata,India's top automaker, has done almost no traditional advertising of the Nano.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

He seemed tired. There was almost no color in his face.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

There was almost no room to move inside it.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

They held almost no power at the national level.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He had almost no formal education.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

There was almost no lecturing.

VOA: special.2011.06.02

French police packed the Jews into a vast stadium near the Eiffel Tower where they languished for days with almost no food or water.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

The proposal has received almost no Republican support in Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

"This month is almost no business at all.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

With no natural predator in the water, and almost no domestic market to sell them as food, Asian Carp threaten to expand into waterways through the city of Chicago, and into Lake Michigan, about 320 kilometers northwest of Havana.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

And there will be grumbling on the left if you want to get something done, but they ultimately need almost all of their party because they are going to get almost no Republicans to come along with them.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Yet researchers from Stanford University say new treatments are often no better than existing ones, but are almost always more costly.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

They say no photographer would make a picture that hides almost all of the people's faces.

VOA: special.2010.05.31