That fast lasted for thirty-six days and almost killed him.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

When they talked they suddenly became frantic and almost silly.

她们一说话就会变得粗野，甚至愚蠢。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And almost every place has its own special vineyard, and the cheese is like that, too.

几乎所有地方都有自己独特的葡萄园，芝士也一样。

喜欢的法国菜 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So far,60 people have died and almost 4,000 villagers have been infected by what has been identified as seasonal flu.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Like something is almost reversible and almost irreversible.

就像什么东西是几乎可逆的,或几乎不可逆的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It says diarrhea-related diseases kill nearly two million people and almost one million die from malaria.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

We have the pulse being slowed down and almost like a law of physics or something, now comes a reaction- now John Kander makes the music accelerate so let's watch a wonderful example of accelerando here.

这里我们听到节奏慢了下来,但是,与物理类似,反作用出现了,现在约翰·肯德尔加快了音乐的节奏,让我们看到了一个渐速音的好例子

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Al-Iryani says the warnings are harming his country, and that Yemen's major cities and almost all its roads are safely controlled by the central government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

and almost, I'd say, almost not a day goes by without somebody asking me,

我想说，几乎没有哪次我经过没有人来问路，

世界的宝物都聚于此 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"And almost 90 percent of smokers began at or before their 18th birthday."

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

In Lycidas, Milton looks back at the Elder Brother's theodicy, and it's almost as if he's attempting to test its validity.

在这首诗中，弥尔顿回顾了《科玛斯》中哥哥的斯奥迪斯，似乎是在验证斯奥迪斯正确与否。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

And these texts almost defy interpretation by a modern person, unless you have guidance from a historian and expert like moi.

这些文本几乎无法由现代人翻译，除非由历史学家或专家指导，比如我。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"Somebody like Michael Jackson who's done so much for the world and stuff, you think almost like he's invincible."

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Ivan Ilyich Of course,this example reminds us again of Ivan Ilyich, who screams and screams and screams almost till his death.

这例子又让我们想起了，他一直惊恐尖叫直到死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The winner will leave with almost nine million dollars and the title of two thousand ten world poker champion.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Now they are falling and in real terms home prices have fallen almost 10% since the peak in 2006.

从2006年房价格最高点算起,现在房价已经,下跌了将近 10%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

See, to be honest even though it might feel like a whole of new stuff at once, it's a pretty small language and so we've almost seen all of the syntactic features thus far so now we'll be able to start focusing more on concepts.

瞧，即使它感觉好像一个新的东西,它是一种相当小的语言,我们迄今看到的几乎所有的语法特征,现在我们将把重点放在概念上。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The world's largest drug company has agreed to pay almost two and a half billion dollars for illegal marketing of medicines.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

And, Aristotle gave us this system, which persisted almost through the Middle Ages. And, Aristotle gave us this, and I'll leave you with this.

他带给我们这个系统，一直统领着我们,直到中世纪，亚里士多德给了我们这个，你们自己看吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And they had to defend a line almost sixty kilometers long, from Richmond to the city of Petersburg.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

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

A recent report predicted that the number of mobile phone accounts worldwide will reach almost four and a half billion this year.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Now we're going to make an assumption today and for the next ten weeks or so; so for almost all the class.

现在我们不妨作一个假设,这个假设在接下来的十多周都要用到,差不多是整个课程都要用到

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Visitors can stand at the top of the mesas and look into the dwellings almost hidden in openings of the rock walls.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

And there are a number of diets-- almost all diets will urge people to take in enough protein.

很多饮食方式,几乎所有饮食都敦促人们摄入足量蛋白质

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But the Chinese farmers used six times more nitrogen, and produced almost twenty-three times more surplus nitrogen.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

This is a question that has perplexed and divided readers of Plato almost from the beginning.

这个困惑,以及区隔柏拉图读者的问题,自始至今皆然。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Lyon became the capital of French gastronomy and not Paris; but, that's almost the exception.

里昂是法国的美食中心,而不是巴黎,这差不多算是个例外

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选