If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students' academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.

如果该学区发现家庭作业对于孩子的学业是不重要的，它就应该减少或者免除家庭作业，而不是让它们几乎一文不值。

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Everthing was too expensive, except for a broken glass vase which he could purchase for almost nothing.

每件东西都太贵了，只有一个破碎的花瓶便宜，可以说就是白送的。

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Somehow I feel responsible and wind up doing the job for almost nothing just to keep my customers happy.

尽管如此我还是很尽责的几乎不图报酬的修复这些吉他只为了让我的顾客满意。

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Chicago billionaire Michael Heisley bought NutriSystem out of Chapter 11 "for almost nothing, " he says, but ended up driving it further into the ground.

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Every year, those tribes came to pick the mangoes at Nurpur Harouni and other nearby farms, working for almost nothing, let go as soon as the harvest thinned.

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Again, at the current trading levels for Monsanto we are getting the Seed and Genomics business at fair value and the rest of Monsanto for almost nothing.

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