almost

• adv.ほとんど、ほぼ

組み合わせ。alはall, allと同じ。

almost

almost: [OE] Almost is simply a combination of all and most. In Anglo-Saxon times, and up until the 17th century, it meant ‘mostly all’ or ‘nearly all’ (thus one could say ‘My best friends are almost men’, meaning most of them are men); but already by the 13th century the modern sense ‘nearly, not quite’ was well in place.
=> all, most

almost (adv.)

Old English eallm?st "nearly all, for the most part," literally "mostly all;" see all + most. Modern form from 15c.

1. The representatives almost came to blows at a meeting.

代表たちはある会議でもう少しで手を出すところだった。

2.It 's almost a foregone conclusion that you 'll get what you want.

あなたが欲しいものを手に入れることはほぼ確実です。

3.By 1973,this gap had narrowed almost to vanishing point.

1973年までに、この差はほぼゼロに縮小されていた。

4. Almost ninety per cent of all rapes and violent assaults went unreported.

強姦事件と暴力侵害事件のほぼ90%が通報されていない。

5.He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object.

赤ちゃんはほとんど命のないものだと思っている。