He says the almost overpowering silence and deepness of the Grand Canyon shakes people at least briefly out of their self-importance.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

The simile sets out to establish the moral polarities between good and evil, but it then works almost systematically to undo that understanding.

这里的比喻开始创造出善与恶之间的,两极性，然而后来它又几乎自动的抹去了这种理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And then I take as many raisins as will fit in and I leave. Right? I hope almost every one of you could figure out that was the right strategy.

然后我再尽量装葡萄干,最后我离开，对吧？,我希望你们每个人都发现了这是最优策略。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But almost everyone tried to help him when they found out that he was riding around the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

But, we'll see as 3.091 progresses, people working almost on the same topic, making new discoveries out of the same lab, one of them might subsequently win the Nobel in physics.

但是，我们会看到随着3。091这门课的进行，人们几乎在研究的同一内容，在同一个实验做出重大的发现，他们中的一个很有可能,获得诺贝尔物理学奖。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I want to lie down." Henry was asleep almost before the words were out of his mouth.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

In 2003, time was almost free out three months.

003年,三个月的时间几乎是不值钱的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When the sun shines on the almost straight-sided rocks, they look like bright shining wings rising out of a mountain of green trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

A particularly puritanical editor of Plato from the twentieth century writes in a footnote to that passage, "this is almost the only passage in Plato " that one would wish to blot out," his sensibilities were offended by this notion.

有一位道德特别崇高的编辑,在二十世纪编到柏拉图这个段落时,写了一句脚注，“这应是柏拉图书中唯一一段,让人想要擦掉的话“,他的感性受到那一段话的冒犯。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Then he pointed out another line of mountains that looks almost exactly the same in Argentina, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

One of the real surprising findings in my field over the last ten/twenty years has been that the acquisition of sign languages has turned out to be almost exactly the same; in fact, as far as we know, exactly the same as the acquisition of spoken languages.

过去的十到二十年间,在我的研究领域里最令人吃惊的发现之一就是,各种手语的获得过程,被证明几乎是完全相同的,实际上据我所知,和口语语言的获得过程是完全相同的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Almost nine out of ten also said they always wash after using the bathroom at home.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

Or a thing I made before, this was a HotOrNot program out of everyone's IDs at Harvard that almost got me kicked out.

在这之前，还用每个人的ID做过一个HotOrNot网站,我因此差点被开除。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

For almost thirty years, researchers have used transgenic mice to carry out biomedical research.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

We will find out later that is almost correct.

我们之后会发现这是几乎正确的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Carbon is driven out, and fine particles of almost pure silica remain.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

typically, if you play poker in a card room or a casino, I would say nine times out of ten somebody sitting at the table will tell you that they're not trying; it almost always happens.

通常，如果你在棋牌室或者赌场玩扑克，十有八九，我敢说坐在牌桌上的某个人,会告诉你他们并没有在努力去赢；,这几乎总会发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Harriet almost died. Months passed before she could get out of bed.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person emerging a person of what he calls excessive virtue almost hyperbolic excellence he says who stands so far above the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.

亚里士多德并未排除,这种人出现的可能性，一位他认为,具有过多美德，及几近夸张的卓越特质,他说，能持续凌驾众人之上的人,值得成为全面性的自然统治者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

almost together. Sue looked out the window.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

"We will use the tremendous capabilities of this ion propulsion system to climb out of orbit around Vesta, travel for almost another three years through the asteroid belt to dwarf planet Ceres and then go into orbit around Ceres and undertake the same kind of measurements there that we'll be doing at Vesta.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

"They almost seem like they are reaching out wanting to kiss you. I love them all.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

Almost all the work for the co-op project has been carried out by volunteers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The highly anticipated dates sold out almost immediately when tickets went on sale.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Using just that large number of genetic markers, the team was able to predict in almost four out of five cases whether a person would live to be 100.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Russia's really going. Latvia's sold out. Swiss I'm almost sold out.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

A document setting out rules for democratic succession was approved almost three years ago, but has been ratified by only three of the 15 countries needed to take effect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

After almost two weeks of nearly constant criticism from minority Republicans who said he wasn't speaking out strongly enough, President Obama received some praise from the Republican leader in the House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2009.06.23