Almost everyone thought I was dead.

几乎每个人都以为我死了。

youdao

I am almost dead, surviving from day to day, from hour to hour, ever since I was taken from my home and brought here with tens of thousands of other Jews.

自从把我从家中带走并随着其他数以万计的犹太人被带到这儿以来，我已濒临死亡，只能活一天算一天，活一小时算一小时。

youdao

Man, I love nested quotes almost as much as I love a dead fish in a platform disco shoe.

先生！我爱你那嵌套的引号，就如我爱那舞台迪斯科鞋里的死鱼。

youdao

Then we walked up to 43rd Street to where I happened to know I could get someone to let me into a locked building where we could charge our now almost dead, though also useless where we live, phones.

FORBES: Robinson Crusoe in 21st Century Manhattan

"I, poor, miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, during a dreadful storm, in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship's company being drowned, and myself almost dead, " Crusoe writes in his first entry.

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