迷你对话学英语口语 第1115期:很少,几乎没有
2019-06-10来源:和谐英语
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第一, 迷你对话
A: Did the fashionable dress cost much?
这时装花了不少钱吧?
B: No. I paid next to nothing for it. I bought it at the flea market.
没有,几乎不花钱。我在跳蚤市场买的。
A: Quiet reasonable.
蛮划算。
第二, 地道表达
next to nothing
1. 解词释义
Next to nothing的意思是“很少”“几乎不,几乎没有”。
2. 拓展范例
e.g. I knew next to nothing; how could I peddle myself like some middle aged woman?
我知道什么呢,叫我像个半老的妇人那样去挣钱?
e.g. I know next to nothing about English.
我对英语几乎什么也不懂。
e.g. She ate next to nothing at dinner.
晚饭时她几乎什么也没吃。
e.g. But of the inner Tynan he knew next to nothing.
但是他对泰纳恩的内心世界几乎一无所知。