Scott Brown won a seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

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

and she has really made a lot of progress. I've been teaching her for almost 2 years,

她真的进步很大。我教她将近两年了，

和钢琴老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For almost twenty years, in the nineteen thirties and forties, Fred Allen had a radio show called "Allen's Alley."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

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

They developed new methods to get what they say are the best estimates yet for almost every country.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

I lived in Europe for almost 4 years and I would say not just in some ways, but perhaps in all ways, we have done that.

我在欧洲生活了将近4年，我想说,不止是在一些方面，而或许是在所有方面，我们做得都好于欧洲人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A newly released proposal calls for almost everyone in the United States to have high-speed Internet service at home within ten years.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

For example, sodium in our blood plasma is almost to the point sometimes of 100 millimol or that's very, very concentrated.

比如，钠在我们的血浆中的浓度,有时几乎达到了一百毫克分子,或者说非常非常浓。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He stayed for almost one year. He was able to get a few paying jobs playing the saxophone.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

In making this point, Milton has just made us, I think, almost utterly unwilling to effect this justice that he himself has called for.

在这个论点中，我认为弥尔顿让我们，几乎完全不情愿地影响了这个审判,这个他说需要的审判。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He was a skilled piano player and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He has a new name for it -I think it's called Home Equity Protection Corporation -but almost the same idea.

他已经想出了一个新名字,我想应该是叫做住房资产保护公司,但是这几乎跟房主贷款公司是一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Oil has been flowing from its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico for almost seven weeks.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

For the condition of their laws is bad almost past cure, except for some miraculous accident.

因为其法律现况,都已过时且不合宜，除了少数的神奇例外。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He spoke for almost two hours on a cold and rainy day, without a hat or overcoat.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

So now somebody can get an artificial hip and they can live for many decades with it and have almost full function of that hip over that period of time.

所以现在患者可以使用人造髋关节,再活上几十年,而且几乎和正常人没一点差别

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It must give up Alsace-Lorraine, a part of France it had held for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

And that's why I would've voted against the Constitution, I encouraged people to vote against the Constitution, and I know almost nobody, except professors in Paris and Lyon, who are for that Constitution that was defeated a year ago May twenty-ninth-- so,there.

这就是我为什么投票反对欧盟宪法条约,我鼓励人们投反对票,我知道除了那些巴黎和里昂的学究们,几乎没人支持,欧盟宪法条约,而他们在一年前的五月二十九日落败,就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Scott lived in these two places for almost four years before he was returned to Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

But also you'd think that if there was a group of people that really had been attending the calories it would be this group, because very few people who come in for weight loss are doing it for the first time, so almost everybody has been on lots of different dietary attempts and somewhere along the line they've been doing calories.

想一想,如果世界上还有一群人,真正关注卡路里的话,那就是肥胖人群,因为那些参加减肥项目的人中,很少有人是第一次参加,几乎人人都进行过多次不同的饮食控制,他们也尝试过计算卡路里减肥

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He served in the United States Senate from the state of Massachusetts for almost forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

It's not the same as it was when I was growing up and it was almost, for a child, it felt scary.

它现在的模样和我小时候的不一样了。那时候，对于一个孩子来说，这个地方很可怕。

过去的时代广场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

And for reference, incidentally, in case you ever forget what the point of some exercise was, I'll almost always comment the code up top with a quick sentence or two that reminds you what this program does.

顺便作为参考，为了避免我们可能忘记一些代码的意思，我通常会用一两个简单的句子,在上面作出注释,那样会提醒我们这个程序是干嘛的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He died in nineteen seventy-four. Samuel Goldwyn was in the movie business for almost sixty years.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

Listen for a while and your body almost will start to tell you start to signal to you, where the downbeat is.

听一会,然后你们的身体大致才会告诉你们,开始给你们信号,告诉你重拍在哪里

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It paid for new roads,bridges, and government buildings -- for almost anything the congressmen wanted.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

You find some way of systematically going through the list. Yet, I often see people, when they're debugging, proceeding at what, to me, looks almost like a random fashion of looking for the bug.

是不是目标元素,我们有一种系统化的，遍历数组的方法，然后我经常看到,有些人调试的时候。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, top-down processing affects how we hear things, usually, almost always, for the better.

所以,自上而下加工几乎总是,会往好的方向影响我们的理解

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选