The flower was sick and almost dying.

这朵花病了，它几乎要死了。

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The flower was very sick—almost dying, so Jim carefully dug up the flower, with roots, soil and everything.

这朵花病得很厉害——几乎要死了，所以吉姆小心翼翼地把它挖了出来，连根带土，什么都挖了出来。

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My poor fellow classmates! They told me they were almost dying.

可怜的同学们，他们告诉我简直都要窒息了！

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The study found that the aspirin users had an almost thirty percent lower risk of dying from their cancer.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

They found that aspirin users had an almost thirty percent lower risk of dying from their cancer.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

"What we found is that live donation is very safe, the risk of dying from donating a kidney is 3 in 10,000 which is much lower than the risk of almost any other operation that you can undergo."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Almost to his dying day he turned up at his New York office.

ECONOMIST: Charles Rembar

Besides, how do you attend to the thoughts and concerns of the dying when medicine has made it almost impossible to be sure who the dying even are?

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

"The sheer number of those infected and dying is almost beyoind comprehension, " Bush said.

CNN: Obasanjo