wellnigh

The party was wellnigh over by the time we arrived.

我们到达时,聚会差不多快结束了.

Let me say just a parting word for Henry Sweet , who has wellnigh been forgotten.

让我来为那几乎被遗忘的亨利-斯威特最后说几句话.

What unites them is becoming stronger and stronger and is making them wellnigh inseparable.

把他们结合起来的力量越来越强,这就使得他们难解难分了.

old mr clare was a clergyman of a type which, within the last twenty years, has wellnigh dropped out of contemporary life.

在最近二十年里，老克莱尔先生这样的牧师都差不多在现代人的生活里消失了。

the task is, wellnigh im'possible.

这项任务几乎无法完成。

a sort of glorying over tom which was wellnigh unbearable.

这是故意对汤姆表示得意的一种举动，令汤姆非常难受。

Formosa used to be a country where the medium of exchange was bullion, not coin, exactly as in china, and the bulky copper coinage used to make commercial transactions of any magnitude wellnigh an impossibility.

福尔摩沙曾经是像中国一样靠的是金银块做为交易的工具，而非货币，而曾经做为商业交易而体积较大的铜的硬货造也几乎是不可能。