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

VOA: special.2009.11.08

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

No. I have an article here that appeared in the Boston Globe, dated Sep. 15, 1995, which says Almost Half Adult in states don't read well.

不，我这里有一篇,1995年9月15日，刊登在《波士顿环球报》上的文章，文章指出，在美国，差不多一半的成年人。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

On an average day,it says, almost twenty-seven thousand doctors, nurses and others work in teams of local and foreign aid workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

They might put up an official inscription in an Eastern city in Latin, but they'd almost always, if it was an official inscription, it would also be listed in Greek.

他们也许用拉丁语在某个东方城市，发布官方告示，如果是官方的，同样总是会附上希腊语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In two thousand five, almost one thousand people were killed in an earthquake near the island of Nias.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Why does God do this? Isn't this, in a way, Putting an obstacle in front of someone Almost ensuring they're going to trip over it?

上帝为什么要这样做？，不是吗，可以这样说，在人面前摆了一个障碍物,几乎确定他会被绊倒？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And in the past several years we've begun to see almost an equal interest by families in sending students here for undergraduate education, and I think that's going to continue because America is really a unique country.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

But the very, sort of, nature of being an institution constrains almost everybody whether it's, in our case, all our investors have thirty-day liquidity.

但是，投资机构的本质在一定程度上束缚了,它所处市场里的每一个人，在我们的案例中，我们所有的投资者都拥有强大的现金流。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

They could keep for themselves the prestigious title of "chaste" even though they were obviously performing an act that almost anyone in an earlier period would assume disqualified them from being called chaste.

他们可以为自己享有这有声望的“贞节“称号“,尽管很显然他们所表现的行为,几乎早期的任何人都会认为,那是没有资格被称为贞节的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Almost one in four unemployed workers is experiencing an unemployment spell of six months or longer, the highest level in over 25 years,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

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

"We have an economy that was growing at almost six percent in the fourth quarter of last year the most rapid rate in six years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

The International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental energy advisor, has projected an almost in conventional oil production by 2020 and the potential for a serious gap between supply and demand by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20