1.简直是,几乎跟...一样
1.almost
1.Mr Epstein's conviction that films are a terrible business for all but Hollywood's sharks also seems to have been overtaken by events.
Epstein坚信对于所有人来说电影行业是个糟糕的行业，好莱坞的大鳄们在一些事情上也被超越。
2.they did not pay much, they paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. Father Hucheloup was a jovial host.
对账目他们有时少付，有时欠付，有时不付，但始终是受到欢迎的。
3.The only possible threat to this regime was a small group of Communist-led guerrillas whom eight years before he had all but liquidated.
对他的统治的唯一可能威胁，只不过是一帮八年前就差点被他消灭了的共产党游击队。
4.I cannot say that I knew them all, but I can tell you that i would have been available to talk to any one of them should the occasion arise.
我不能说我认识她们每一个人，但是我可以告诉你，如果她们有需要的时候，我随时都可以给她们提供帮助。
5.It seems that this was not really theft at all, but a re-appropriation of found material, a "remix" if you will.
好像这根本不是偷盗，只是对已发现材料的重新占有，如果愿意你也可以称它为“重新混音”。
6.When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista.
在我们健康时，觉得死亡几乎是不可想象的，即便偶尔想起，也觉得死亡的日子正在自己无边的视野中不断远离。
7.Once shark fins are dried and in jars, it is all but impossible to tell what kind of shark they came from or whether they were finned.
鲨鱼的鳍一旦被晒干并放入罐里，便几乎无可判断它们来自哪种鲨鱼，或者是否是被割下来的。
8.His florid rhetorical style was typical of the era, and that speech is all but forgotten.
这种辞藻丰富、修辞热烈的风格是那个时代的典型代表，但那篇演讲却只能被人遗忘。
9.US oil groups were all but shut out of Iraq as the country completed the biggest oil field auction in history at the weekend.
伊拉克在周末完成了该国历史上规模最大的油田开发招标活动，美国石油集团几乎全部出局。
10.One of Jersey's biggest earners until recently was the securitisation of financial assets; that market is all but dead.
根西岛一项最赚钱的业务是金融资产证券化，但是现在已经不复存在了。