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In a contest, your nearest rival or challenger is the person or team that is most likely to defeat you.
例句
He completed the lengthy course some three seconds faster than his nearest rival, Jonathon Ford...
他比勁敵喬納森·福特少用了大概3秒鐘完成了漫長的賽程。
That victory put the Ukrainians beyond the reach of their nearest challengers, Dynamo Moscow.
本場勝利使烏克蘭人甩開了最強(qiáng)有力的對手，莫斯科迪那摩隊(duì)。
VERB
靠近;走近
When you near a place, you get quite near to it.
例句
As he neared the stable, he slowed the horse and patted it on the neck...
接近馬廄時，他勒馬緩行，輕拍它的脖頸。
We were nearing the top of the pass to Tsagochen Thang when the van spluttered and died.
我們在駛近通往 Tsagochen Thang 的埡口時，貨車噼啪幾聲熄火了。
VERB
接近，臨近(某一階段或某一點(diǎn))
When someone or something nears a particular stage or point, they will soon reach that stage or point.
例句
His age was hard to guess — he must have been nearing fifty...
很難猜測他的年齡，他一定快50了。
You are nearing the end of your training and you haven't attempted any assessments yet...
培訓(xùn)快結(jié)束了，你還沒有參加任何評估測試。
VERB
臨近;即將來臨
You say that an important time or event nears when it is going to occur quite soon.
例句
As half time neared, Hardyman almost scored twice...
臨近中場休息時，哈迪曼差點(diǎn)梅開二度。
This factor will come increasingly to the fore as election day nears.
隨著選舉日的臨近，這一因素將愈發(fā)重要。
PHRASE
最親近的人;最親密的人;至親
People sometimes refer to their close relatives and friends as their nearest and dearest .
例句
...that English convention of not showing your feelings, even to your nearest and dearest.
甚至不向最親近的人流露自己情感的英國社會習(xí)俗
PHRASE
遠(yuǎn)近;到處;四面八方
You use near and far to indicate that you are referring to a very large area or distance.
例句
People would gather from near and far...
人們會從四面八方聚到一起。
Within months his reputation spread near and far.
沒幾個月他就遠(yuǎn)近聞名了。
PHRASE
在不久的將來;在近期
If you say that something will happen in the near future, you mean that it will happen quite soon.
例句
The controversy regarding vitamin C is unlikely to be resolved in the near future.
關(guān)于維生素C的爭議短期內(nèi)不可能平息。
PHRASE
一點(diǎn)兒也不;完全不;遠(yuǎn)不
You use nowhere near and not anywhere near to emphasize that something is not the case.
例句
They are nowhere near good enough...
他們還遠(yuǎn)不夠好。
It was nowhere near as painful as David had expected...
這遠(yuǎn)不如戴維所料想的那么痛苦。
PHRASE
幾乎絲毫不差地，幾乎一樣地(英國英語中亦作 as near as dammit)
If you want to indicate that something is almost true, you can use the expressions near enough and damned near. In British English, you can also say as near as dammit.
例句
I bought them for a pound apiece, near enough...
我?guī)缀跏且砸挥㈡^一件的價錢買下了它們。
They are as near as dammit new...
它們幾乎是新的。
PHRASE
差點(diǎn)，險些(發(fā)生某事)(英國英語中亦作 as near as dammit)
If you want to indicate that something almost happened, you can use the expression damned near. In British English, you can also say as near as dammit .
例句
He damned near fooled me...
他險些把我騙了。
As he was to tell Miranda later, he as near as dammit left it there.
像他隨后告訴米蘭達(dá)的那樣，他幾乎沒碰它。
英英詞典釋義