The tight race is almost a duplicate of the elections in Georgia and South Dakota last month that pitted a Republican challenger against a Democratic incumbent.
这次紧张的竞选几乎是上个月在佐治亚州和南达科他州选举的翻版，由一个共和党的挑战者竞争一个现任的民主党人。
Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.
用双手从事工作几乎被视为低等的标志。
She watched the train drag her car almost a kilometer down the railway tracks.
她看着火车把她的车沿着铁轨拖了将近一公里。
Stand him against a standard growth chart and he is almost a head shorter than he should be at his age.
当他靠着一张标准成长图表站着时，就可以看到他几乎比他的实际年龄矮了一头。
Toad got down on the step, and as the train slowed down to almost a walking pace, he heard the driver call out, "Now, jump!"
蟾蜍踩下踏板，火车减速至与步行差不多时，他听到司机一声喊：“现在，跳！”
With palm trees swaying over almost a mile of sparkling sand, there is no better place for you to let loose entirely and simply sway along with the breeze.
棕榈树在将近一英里长的闪闪发光的沙滩上摇摆，没有比这更好的地方让你完全放松，简单地随着微风摇摆。
There is almost a "recycle" rubbish can around.
周围几乎都有一个“可回收”垃圾桶。
Spending almost a full day in the car with a 70-year-old woman could be boring.
和一个70岁的老太太在车里待上一整天可能会很无聊。
When he was 44, he returned to his motherland and the country's space research was almost a blank.
他44岁时回归祖国，那时国内在太空研究领域几乎是一片空白。
The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.
法国人丹尼斯·帕潘在詹姆斯·瓦特出生前近百年就有了制造蒸汽机的想法，但是他从来没有足够的资金去建造这样一台机器。
If followed, these suggestions will make disastrous earthquakes almost a thing of the past.
如果遵循这些建议，灾难性地震将成为过去。
Opera was commonplace in Italy for almost a thousand years before it became commercial as a venture.
上千年来，歌剧在意大利一直都是很普通的事物，直到它变成一种被商业化的项目。
Many years ago, at the beginning of my athlete career, I was injured in the Addis Ababa Marathon, and I could not walk for almost a week.
许多年以前，在我运动员生涯刚开始时，我在亚的斯亚贝巴马拉松中受伤了，我几乎一周都不能走路。
To work it as a feature film, Mr.Carré's book had to be condensed into 127 minutes, almost a third of the length of the television version.
要将它制作成一部故事长片，卡雷先生的书必须被浓缩进127分钟之内，这几乎只是电视版本时长的三分之一。
The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost a year round that people eat many times a day.
地中海地区气候温暖、阳光充足，几乎一年到头都出产大量新鲜水果和蔬菜，这些果蔬是人们每天都要吃许多次的。
It's almost a utility, like an email account.
像电子邮件账户一样，它就是个用得着的应用程序。
She'd been there almost a week and I hadn't made it in to see her.
她在那儿呆了将近一个星期，我竟然没有及时去看她一眼。
Each of them runs almost a third of America's dialysis clinics.
他们都占有美国透析诊所的三分之一份额。
These days, making the decision to breastfeed is almost a no-brainer.
现在，决定要母乳喂养简直是无需用大脑考虑的事。
We haven't met in almost a week now, even though we agreed on daily updates.
我们现在几乎不可能在一周内完成，即使我们同意每日更新。
For almost a year the markets had worried about Banks' liquidity and solvency.
市场已经为银行的流动性和偿付能力担忧了近一年。
It's almost a sign of affection if we like you, and ego bursting if we don't.
它就是我们喜欢你对你友好的标志，但要是不喜欢你我们就自我爆发。
Wearable – it's almost a dirty word in fashion, wearable, but that's what I do.
耐穿——这在时尚界快成了一个肮脏的词汇，耐穿，但这就是我做的。
It has its own momentum - almost a little entity, a stream, that doesn't want to end.
它有自己的动能—它几乎就是一个小的实体，一个不愿停止的流动。
The CHS notation is almost a historical footnote today, because it's a 24-bit number.
今天，CHS标记法几乎成为了老古董，因为它是一个24位的数字。
Rating agencies say that the number of defaults is the lowest for almost a decade.
信用评级机构称，这是近十年来发生违约最少的时期。
After almost a year, I got an information-free reply, thanking me for my interest.
整整一年以后，我收到了他的自动回复，说感谢我的关注。
I've been on the path of personal growth for almost a decade despite my young age.
虽然我还年轻，但我从十几年前就开始关注我的个人成长旅程。
Haven't they heard demand for new cars has slumped by almost a half in some markets?
难道他们没有听说，部分市场的新车需求已经下滑近半了吗？
Haven't they heard demand for new cars has slumped by almost a half in some markets?
难道他们没有听说，部分市场的新车需求已经下滑近半了吗？
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