From that time until she was almost seven years old, Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The sense of powerlessness, the most profound sense of powerlessness, suggested already by the first episode where his mother almost takes back the life she gave him, is rooted in the family.

无能为力之感，极度的无能为力之感，在他母亲几乎,毁了他时就有过，这在他的家庭中深深地扎根。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

Almost thirty years later, she received a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on the genocide that took place there.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

She would write to almost anyone who wrote to her.

回了很多信件,而其几乎是每封必回。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When it was almost time for the sun to rise, she quietly left her house and hurried through the forest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

There was a sense that she'll never be from the village, she's from somewhere else; but, sometime between 1750 and maybe 1990 most-- almost everybody in France began seeing themselves as French.

就是有一种感觉,她从来也不是本村人,她是外地来的,但是,在1750年到最晚1990年之间的某段时间,基本上所有在法国的人都认为自己是法国人

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

She has said that writing the songs on "Bare Bones" was a very new experience, almost like making her first album over again.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

and had still not learned almost anything. She had one of those teach-yourself-piano books,

但并没有学会。她有一本自学钢琴的书，

和钢琴老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And it almost fell at the Alamo Beside the Texas flag, But she waved on though.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

said the man gently. "I've been with you today, and every day,almost, since--since she left us.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

But she continued to travel, speak and study almost to the end of her life.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

She shivered at its silence. She hurried up the stairs, almost with guilt.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

While she was with the band, Ella recorded almost one hundred fifty songs.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Her name was Anne Sullivan. She herself had once been almost completely blind.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons of several animals that no longer existed on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

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

VOA: special.2011.04.28

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

VOA: special.2011.02.13

And she had friends in almost every department of the government.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

She once said that hands speak almost as loudly as words.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Sylvie didn't answer. She was glad they were almost home.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

She was almost eighty years old at the time.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

She was this way in almost everything she did.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She knew almost all the top government officials.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

She became famous almost overnight.

VOA: special.2010.12.24

She's been an elementary school math teacher for almost 30 years, and says introducing this new curriculum has been an exciting experience.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

She goes from writing no poems to writing almost a poem a week.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

She is beautiful but not sexual, almost androgynous.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26