well-nighs中文什么意思
well-nigh
['welnai]
adv.
几乎,差不多;大约[亦作 nigh on 或 upon]
- a well: 一口井
- and as well: 以及, 又
- as well: 不防; 不用于否定句; 常放于句末; ...
例句与用法
- they concluded that american literature had been well-nigh throttled at birth .
他们断言美国文学诞生之日便几乎被扼杀了。 - the village of weatherbury was quiet as the graveyard in its midst, and the living were lying well-nigh as still as the dead .
韦瑟伯利村镇静得很象坟场,生灵都象死一般地沉睡着。 - as, indeed, they must have seemed of the most exaggerated enormity to stephen whose own were so small and so faintly traced, as to be well-nigh imperceptible .
且被宣染得罪大恶极,其实,斯蒂芬在这方面的罪状本属微乎其微,甚至难以察觉。