The United States Census Bureau estimates that there are almost forty-seven million people of Hispanic heritage living in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

there is almost a kind of metaphorical play between what he's describing and the sounds with which he is doing the describing.

这里有一个比喻,在他描述的东西和,他即将描述的声音。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You have one where you have almost only pirates in there.

有一家只招待海盗的酒吧。

旧金山的夜生活 - 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

Humans suffered as a consequence from nutritional deficiencies in almost all parts of the world because there weren't complete diets.

几乎全世界的人们都饱受营养不良的困扰,因为他们没有平衡的食谱

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The women were mostly Filipino or Russian, although there were listings of women from almost every country.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

At one level, you might say there is an important difference in style that you will see almost immediately.

在一个层面上,你可能会说有个重要的差别是风格,我们马上就会看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

There's almost a danger here in listening to it too long or describing it in too much detail and the danger seems or what Milton thinks of as the peril seems to involve the problem of time.

听太久的话几乎都会有危险,描写过细的话,又会花费很多时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The World Health Organization says there were almost two hundred fifty thousand new cases last year.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Actually, the truth is I sort of almost felt that once you were there, it's kind of easy to get lost there, to forget about it.

实际情况是,我觉得一旦你生活在那里，似乎很容易忘记这种冲突。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

There are so many South's today that it has rendered this question in some ways almost irrelevant, but, in other ways, of course not.

现在南方有许多的东西,看似和这个问题无关,从某种角度而言甚至是毫不相关,但是,换个角度来说 当然不是这样的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.12.01

That's almost saying there are difficulties, and you didn't treat them either.

那等同于在说存在这些困难，只是没有去处理而已。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

There were telephones in almost every business office in the cities and in many homes.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

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

There were none. The ship had traveled almost four hundred eighty kilometers in twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

There had been few complaints since the Commandments were posted almost twelve years ago.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

The second particle was deflected almost not at all. But what he could tell from the fact that there was a second particle at all, and the fact that it was in this direction, is that in addition to his negative particle, he also, of course, had a positive particle that was within this stream of rays that were coming out.

粒子的强烈信号,有着强烈的对比,第二个粒子几乎，不发生偏转，他能判断这是，第二个粒子的原因是它在这个方向,所以在出射射线中,除了有带负电的粒子外。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.08.23

And too many companies can actually hang on for almost too long with too much money because there has been so much money funding these ideas.

而太多公司吊死在投资这棵树上了,浪费了大量时间和金钱,因为投入的金钱实在是过于多了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Seventy-nine is, of course, the letter O so we're almost there.

当然，79代表字符。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She also uses Facebook but says people almost never discuss science there.

VOA: special.2011.04.28

These conditions permitted a development of institutions and habits needed for freedom, even as they also made Europe vulnerable to conquests and to extinction, and Europe was almost extinguished practically before there was a Europe; very early in its history.

这些恰恰是自由的形成和发展,需要的的制度和特征,尽管这也使欧洲,在外敌入侵时变的不堪一击,实际上,在它早期的历史中,欧洲在尚未形成前就差点消失

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There were almost four hundred sixty deaths a year from liver failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

For a moment at least, it's almost as if there were a strange moral equivalence between the palaces up there and the palaces down here.

至少在一瞬间，在天堂的宫殿与地狱的宫殿之间,存在着一种奇怪的道德上的平等。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The poor, who still make a great percentage of this country Now at the same time, it seems like there's this, I've heard a couple of people say it now, almost two Christianities.

穷人，仍然占美国的大多数,现在，好像有这样的现象出现，我听过一些人这样表述，有两个基督教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选