| 单词 | anywhere near |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanywhere near (also close to) anywhere near (also close to): (used for emphasis) at all near (literally or figuratively); remotely close to in extent, level, or scope.Usually in negative or conditional contexts. ΚΠ 1827 G. Tibbits Ess. on Home Markets 39 [The] price..had never, for thirty years before, been any where near as low. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxii. 124 We had drifted too much to allow of our dead reckoning being anywhere near the mark. 1887 F. Wilkeson Recoll. Private Soldier in Army of Potomac 63 It was not anywhere near as bloody as I had expected a battle to be. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xii You never came anywhere near that smite of Scaife's. 1974 Black Enterprise June 113 I do not believe there was a single forecaster who came anywhere close to the mark. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 2 Apr. 6 No one else..comes anywhere close to her level of diffidence about Parliament. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 July viii. 3/5 Barry didn't weight train with anywhere near the same level of intensity before he began working with Greg Anderson. < as lemmas |
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