well-nigh
近乎于,近乎苛刻的,近乎,迩来
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- : very nearly; almost: It's well-nigh bedtime.
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The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.
Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.
The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.
In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.
It is the obligation of citizens and journalists as well as governments.
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.