六级In a survey of 54 of the world's leading brands, almost all of them reported that consumers are showing increasing care about sustainable lifestyles.

在一项对54个世界领先品牌的调查中，几乎所有品牌都报告说，消费者越来越关注可持续的生活方式。

考研Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through.

Facebook当时向欧盟委员会承诺，它不会将电话号码与Facebook身份联系起来，但它几乎在交易完成后就违背了承诺。

六级The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared.

事实上，每个主要行业的职位空缺都大幅减少，而几乎所有行业被迫从事兼职工作的工人数量都大幅增加。

六级The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into parttime employment in almost all industries has soared.

事实上，每个主要行业的职位空缺都大幅减少，而几乎所有行业被迫兼职的工人数量都大幅增加。

六级I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; It was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

我一直在关注自封的专家们在大萧条期间对失业的看法；这几乎和现在非常严肃的人们所说的一模一样。

考研Your prospects would be almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions-like, say, tennis games.

如果争论仅仅是像网球比赛这样的比赛，你的前景也会同样黯淡。

六级And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.

反省一下，这并不奇怪；单词环境有如此多的维度，还有如此多的其他因素影响着财富，比如石油储量，因此挑出一个简单的经济-环境关系几乎是不可能的。

六级And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word" environment" has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impos

反省一下，这并不奇怪；“环境”一词有如此多的维度，还有如此多的其他因素影响着财富，比如石油储量，因此挑出一个简单的经济-环境关系几乎是不可能的

六级Devils Tower, the first national monument in America, could almost be mistaken for the stump of an enormous tree.

魔鬼塔，美国第一座国家纪念碑，几乎可以被误认为是一棵大树的树桩。

四级People were coming out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

人们从一种正式的、近乎维多利亚式的态度中走出来，你真的觉得一切都是可能的。

四级Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life.

几乎每一个孩子，在他踏进学校大楼的第一天，都会变得更聪明、更好奇、更少害怕自己不知道的东西、更善于发现和解决问题、更自信、更足智多谋(机敏的), 在他的学校里，他将变得更加执着和独立——或者，除非他非常不寻常，非常幸运，否则他将终生如此。

四级True to her word, she was correct almost every time.

她信守诺言，几乎每次都是对的。

四级In fact, evidence shows almost dogs stay with one partner their whole lives.

事实上，有证据表明，几乎所有的狗一生都和一个伴侣在一起。

六级But with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the other person starts speaking.

但在同声传译中，你几乎在对方开始说话时就开始翻译。

高考Boom towns grow from nothing almost overnight.

繁荣的城镇几乎在一夜之间从无到有。

六级Almost half of the sites didn't get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.

几乎一半的网站没有通过考试，只有18%的网站获得了a或B。

高考It takes place almost every year all over the world.

它几乎每年都在全世界发生。

六级In fact, almost every interview I've ever had was due to a connection—one that I've gained through pure determination, not a school brand.

事实上，我参加过的几乎每一次面试都是因为我通过纯粹的决心而获得的联系，而不是学校品牌。

四级So they’re cheap almost everywhere.

所以它们几乎到处都很便宜。

四级Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms—a process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.

真正的批评为一位作家创造了一个宝贵的机会，让他能够根据自己的条件变得更好——这一过程通常非常痛苦，但几乎总是有意义的。

高考I think almost all the people in the town were there.

我想镇上几乎所有的人都在那里。

考研Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.

用手工作几乎被视为自卑的标志。

四级I would do almost anything not to be a burden, and not require any help from anybody.

为了不成为负担，我几乎愿意做任何事情，也不需要任何人的帮助。

六级Smith says he'll provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-farm workshops on holistic management, to one-on-one hand-holding and an almost 24/7 phone hotline for farmers who are converting.

史密斯说，他将为正在转化的农民提供各种服务，从正式的研讨会到关于整体管理的农场研讨会，到一对一的手持设备和几乎全天候的电话热线。

四级Almost all companies recognise the importance of innovation today.

如今，几乎所有公司都认识到创新的重要性。

六级For almost all white-collar jobs, email is the primary tool of corporate communication.

对于几乎所有的白领工作来说，电子邮件是公司沟通的主要工具。

六级It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

毫不奇怪，物联网的新应用正在快速发展，因为我们购买的几乎每一款新设备的末端都有插头或与互联网的无线连接。

四级Somewhat nostalgically, he quotes John Maynard Keynes' justly famous words of praise to the bookstore: "One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye."

他引用了约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）对书店的名言，略带怀旧之情：“一个人应该在梦中隐约进入书店，让那里的东西自由吸引和影响眼球。”

高考Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and their use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words learned/learnt this way in conversations almost automatically.

另一件好事是，你会无意识地学习生词和它们的用法，这意味着你会倾向于在对话中几乎自动地使用这种方式学习到的单词。

高考He owned a farm, which looked almost abandoned.

他拥有一个农场，看起来几乎被遗弃了。

考研These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.

这些习惯帮助公司在顾客几乎不假思索地吃零食或擦柜台时赚取了数十亿美元，通常是为了响应精心设计的一套日常提示。

高考You'll get in more questions, the discussion will be tailored to what you need most help on, and two-party communication is almost always more productive than committee work.

你会遇到更多的问题，讨论会根据你最需要的帮助进行调整，而且两党沟通几乎总是比委员会工作更有成效。

四级They were subject to taxation almost everywhere.

他们几乎在任何地方都要纳税。

四级In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《重新想象生活》中写道。

六级She beat the record by almost two hours, and her father rewarded her with a red sports car.

她打破记录快两个小时了，她父亲奖励她一辆红色跑车。

四级Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.

我们中近三分之二的人每周吃一次快餐，我们从零食中获得了几乎25%的日常热量。

六级It supports what we might almost think of as conventional wisdom.

它支持我们几乎可以认为是传统智慧的东西。

四级Perception of sweet and salty foods dropped by almost individuals percent in a simulation of air travel.

在一次模拟航空旅行中，人们对甜味和咸味食物的感知下降了近百分之十。

考研But almost all have ignored the big, profitable opportunity in their own backyard: the wholesale food and drink trade, which appears to be just the kind of market retailers need.

但几乎所有人都忽视了自己后院的巨大盈利机会：食品和饮料批发贸易，这似乎正是零售商需要的市场。

四级Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

总的来说，近五分之三的人表示，为了省钱，他们试图限制纸张的使用，包括面巾纸和厨房用纸卷。

六级Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

几乎一半的毕业生——那些收入继续下降的人——将有一部分债务被注销。

六级I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

我一直在关注自封的专家们在大萧条期间对失业的看法；这几乎和现在非常严肃的人们所说的一模一样。

六级The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost year round that people eat many times a day.

地中海地区气候温暖，阳光充足，几乎全年都有大量新鲜水果和蔬菜供应，人们每天要吃很多次。

高考"I have worked there on and off for almost ten years," says gin.

“我在那里断断续续地工作了将近十年，”金说。

考研It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.

令人好奇的是，斯蒂芬·科齐亚特克（Stephen Koziatek）几乎觉得他必须证明自己为给学生们一个更好的未来所做的努力是正当的。

四级Is it almost time to go home now?

现在快回家了吗？

四级At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.

在某个时刻，我们几乎所有人都将经历一段彻底的职业变革时期。

四级About 8% said they used the Internet as a way to escape problems, and almost 14% reported they "found it hard to stay away from the Internet for several days at a time

大约8%的人说他们使用互联网来逃避问题，近14%的人说他们“发现很难一次远离互联网好几天”

高考Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

其中近一半被填埋，多达1200万吨污染海洋。

六级his experiments resulted in a new style that was almost exactly opposite the accepted technique of the time.

他的实验产生了一种新的风格，几乎与当时公认的技术完全相反。

六级For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

近五个世纪以来，鳕鱼的大量供应，鳕 鱼) 为该行业提供了丰富的原材料，该行业在鼎盛时期雇用了约40000人，维持了纽芬兰的整个社区。

四级his name was Marie-Antoine Careme, and he had appeared, one day, almost out of nowhere.

他的名字叫玛丽·安托万·卡莱姆，有一天，他几乎是凭空出现的。

高考The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.

考虑到自动驾驶技术的成本以及责任和维护问题，第一批商用无人驾驶汽车几乎肯定会通过叫车服务推出。

六级Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

公司正在努力推动，但对于普通消费者来说，这几乎是压倒性的，因为有太多的兼容性问题需要考虑。

六级But she was so nervous that she kept forgetting what to say, and she spoke almost in a whisper.

但她太紧张了，总是忘了说什么，几乎是低声说话。

高考He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.

他发现，如果18个月大的婴儿看到一个没有亲缘关系的成年人正忙着开门，几乎所有的人都会立即帮忙。

六级Trips that many adults would consider the adventure of a lifetime-treks in Borneo, a sports tour to Barbados-appear to have become almost routine at some state schools.

许多成年人都会考虑在Borneo度过一生的旅程，在一些州的学校里，去巴巴多斯的体育旅行似乎几乎是常规的。

六级Now, just about everyone has a smartphone, connected to the internet almost everywhere almost all the time.

现在，几乎每个人都有一部智能手机，几乎随时随地都可以连接到互联网。

四级Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 开始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

几乎一半的受访者表示，他们的公司要么处于重组中，要么即将上台。开始 信息技术在大多数情况下，重组意味着更加重视团队。

高考It's almost never good to start a meeting with general comments such as:"I didn't understand what you said about [main topic of the course] "or "I couldn't understand any of your lectures last week."

开始一次会议时，总有一些笼统的评论，比如：“我不明白你对[课程的主要主题]所说的话”或者“你上周的讲座我都听不懂”

四级In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women.

总的来说，研究发现，大学生犯这种错误的可能性几乎与老年人相同，而男性犯这种错误的可能性与女性相同。

考研To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief.

对于焦急的旅行者来说，看到美国海岸几乎让他们感到难以言喻的宽慰。

考研If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, it has chosen an indirect method: there is no guarantee that DNT by default will become the norm.

如果它试图颠覆几乎完全依赖广告的谷歌，它选择了一种间接的方法：无法保证默认情况下DNT会成为常态。

六级In order to achieve a successful outcome or reward, some level of risk is almost always essential.

为了获得成功的结果或回报，一定程度的风险几乎总是必不可少的。

高考One day after school, while exploring the green woods of this magnificent mountain, I almost fell on a set of stairs.

一天放学后，当我在这座壮丽的山上探索绿色森林时，我差点摔倒在楼梯上。

四级A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

只有极少数人能够记住他们生活中的几乎每一个细节。

六级As technology ( ' , and with it, work emails) seeps ( ' , 渗入 ) into every aspect of our lives, work-life balance has become an almost meaningless term.

随着技术（以及随之而来的工作电子邮件）的渗透，渗入 ) 在我们生活的方方面面，工作与生活的平衡已经成为一个几乎毫无意义的术语。

六级Experts said that whether or not Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost certainly be able to further limit the government's reach.

专家表示，无论苹果是否败诉，未来可能采取的措施几乎肯定能够进一步限制政府的影响力。

六级For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

近五个世纪以来，大量的鳕鱼供应为这个行业提供了丰富的原材料，该行业在鼎盛时期雇用了约40000人，维持了纽芬兰的整个社区。

六级Technology is becoming bigger and more aspirational, and penetrating almost every aspect of our lives.

科技正变得越来越强大，越来越有抱负，几乎渗透到我们生活的方方面面。

六级Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

几乎一半的毕业生——那些收入继续下降的人——将有一部分债务被注销。

四级The other day, he came home from school almost in tears.

前几天，他放学回家时几乎流下了眼泪。

四级However, he'll need to do so without tripping the anti-jamming system, the details of which he almost certainly does not have access to.

然而，他需要在不破坏抗干扰系统的情况下这样做，而他几乎肯定无法接触到抗干扰系统的细节。

高考Office hours almost always go better if you bring a few specific questions to the meeting.

如果你在会议上提出一些具体的问题，办公时间几乎总是会更好。

考研Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.

几乎所有接受本期特别报道采访的人都表示，目前最大的问题不是需求不足，而是缺乏好的产品可供销售。

高考These modern architectural masterpieces are so many that Hilversum almost feels like an open air museum.

这些现代建筑杰作如此之多，以至于希尔弗瑟姆感觉就像一个露天博物馆。

四级And what's more, you use it every day, almost every moment of your life

更重要的是，你每天都在使用它，几乎是你生命中的每一刻

六级Having lived in Asia for almost 10 years now, I've seen various dieting tips come and go.

我已经在亚洲生活了近10年，我看到各种各样的节食建议来来往往。

四级Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

在英国，排长队、航班延误和机场人满为患几乎已成为人们谈论的话题，就像传统的抱怨天气一样。

高考Since almost 3% of the metal is lost during reprocessing, we'd have to make an extra 10 cans each year.

由于在再加工过程中几乎有3%的金属流失，我们每年不得不多生产10罐。

考研Almost all of the interior detail is of cast iron or plaster; the use of wood was minimized to insure fire safety.

几乎所有的内部细节都是铸铁或灰泥；为了确保消防安全，尽量减少使用木材。

四级He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

他说，今年的价格太低，他几乎没有盈利。

四级She has almost recovered from the cough.

她咳嗽几乎痊愈了。

四级People were coming out of a formal and almost victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

人们从一种正式的、近乎维多利亚式的态度中走出来，你真的觉得一切都是可能的。

高考Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

因此，报纸几乎只为政界或行业的富人阅读。

四级In the 1920s, Swiss psychologist Jean piaget proposed that children's cognitive abilities unfold naturally,like the blooming of a flower, almost independent of what else is happening in their lives.

20世纪20年代，瑞士心理学家让·皮亚杰（Jean piaget）提出，儿童的认知能力自然展开，就像花朵盛开一样，几乎与他们生活中发生的其他事情无关。

四级John, she almost whispered.

约翰，她几乎小声说。

四级Rainier's family has ruled Monaco almost continuously since 1297.

自1297年以来，雷尼尔家族几乎一直统治着摩纳哥。

高考Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

几年前，我收到了一封来自17岁的克里的信，她自称是世界级的挑剔者，几乎总是被事情所困扰。

六级The complex style of the medieval wooden church carvings and the skills used to make them almost certainly to derive from the ancient Viking tradition.

中世纪木制教堂雕刻的复杂风格和制作这些雕刻的技巧几乎肯定源自古代北欧海盗的传统。

高考California condors attract researchers' interest because they almost died out in the 1980s.

加州秃鹰吸引了研究人员的兴趣，因为它们在20世纪80年代几乎灭绝。

考研It's almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure.

人生几乎不可能不经历某种失败。

高考A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

去年在霍尔伯恩进行的一项为期三周的试验发现，在任何时候使用自动扶梯的人数都可能增加近三分之一。

四级Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

经济学家亚当·斯密（Adam Smith）曾写道，糖、酒精和烟草都是不属于生活必需品的商品，几乎已成为普遍消费的对象，因此，它们是极受欢迎的征税对象。

六级Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

部分问题在于，在亚马逊申请一键式专利近20年后，在线零售购物和购买体验充满了摩擦。

高考She'd look at me with those sad brown eyes of hers, beam her need, and then wait, trusting I would understand — which, strangely, I almost always did.

她会用她那双悲伤的棕色眼睛看着我，流露出她的需要，然后等待，相信我会理解——奇怪的是，我几乎总是这样。

六级It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

同样令人不安的是，我们最年轻的合格选民——18至24岁的选民——的投票率正在大幅下降：即使在全国选举中，也只有四分之一的人参加投票，而18岁的选民首次获得投票时，这一比例几乎是原来的两倍。

六级It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

同样令人不安的是，我们最年轻的合格选民——从18岁到24岁——的投票率正在大幅下降：即使在全国选举中，参加投票的选民也只有四分之一多一点，而18岁的选民首次参加giv选举时，这一比例几乎是原来的两倍

高考I was almost knocked down recently by a cyclist riding on the pavement when there was a cycle lane right next to him.

我最近差点被一个骑自行车的人撞倒，当时他旁边有一条自行车道。

考研As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

截至2005年，有近50万来自世界各个领域的专业社会科学家在学术界内外工作。