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very nearly―almost―well nigh―nigh upon―close upon発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
もう少しで - 斎藤和英大辞典
A motor-car very nearly ran over me―well nigh ran over me―came near running over me―went near to run over me―just missed running over me.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
すんでの事に自動車にひかれるところであった - 斎藤和英大辞典
In summer, success would have been well-nigh certain.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
夏であれば、成功はほとんどまちがいなかった。 - JULES VERNE『80日間世界一周』
I very nearly fell over this precipice―well nigh fell over this precipice―came near falling over this precipice―came within an inch of falling over this precipice―just missed falling over this precipice.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
僕はすんでの事にこの崖から落ちるところであった - 斎藤和英大辞典
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well nigh
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2008/07/17 16:57 UTC 版)
well-nigh
語源
From Middle English wel-neigh (“physically close to; near in time to; almost, nearly; closely”) [and other forms],[1] from 古期英語 wel nēah, wel nēh, from wel (“well”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + nēah, nēh (“close, near”) (ultimate from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to attain, reach”)). Synchronically a univerbation of well (“completely, fully; to a significant degree”) + nigh (“close by, near”).[2]
副詞
- Almost, nearly.
- Synonyms: (Britain, dialectal) fornigh, just about, virtually, well-near; see also Thesaurus:almost, Thesaurus:approximately
- 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “[Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman] The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman. [Night 560.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VI, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 59:
- […] Sindbad the Seaman continued:—So when I escaped drowning and reached the island which afforded me fruit to eat and water to drink, I returned thanks to the Most High and glorified Him; after which I sat till nightfall, hearing no voice and seeing none inhabitant. Then I lay down, well-nigh dead for travail and trouble and terror, and slept without surcease till morning, […]
- 1890, William James, “The Stream of Thought”, in The Principles of Psychology […] (米国用法 Science Series—Advanced Course), volume I, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 231:
- 1910, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], “A Hundred Thousand Heroes—A Hundred Thousand Victims”, in In the Foreign Legion, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, page 137:
- Five years ago the officers determined to build a new mess. There was only one objection to the fulfilment of this wish: the regimental coffers were wellnigh empty.
- 1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, “Phonology of the Foreign Element: English”, in The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language […], part I (Introduction, Phonology), Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, →OCLC, paragraph 381, page 633:
- From the third quarter of the 18th century, there has been a steady accession of English words into Bengali, and through an intimate knowledge of the English language and English culture among the educated classes—and 'educated' is now almost synonymous with 'educated in English'—an unending stream of English words is now being admitted into Bengali; and the process was never more active than at the present moment: so that it is well-nigh impossible now to estimate the English element in Bengali, alike in its extent and in its phonology.
- 2006 April 22, Philip French, “Silent Hill”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Directed by Christopher Gans […] and scripted by Roger Avary, who shared an Oscar with Tarantino for the screenplay of Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill is a well-nigh incomprehensible horror movie made in Canada and set in a West Virginian ghost town.
参照
- ^ “wel-neigh, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “well-nigh, adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “well-nigh, adv.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
wellnigh
副詞
wellnigh (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of well-nigh.
- 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, p. 161:
- 1910, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], “A Hundred Thousand Heroes—A Hundred Thousand Victims”, in In the Foreign Legion, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, page 137:
- Five years ago the officers determined to build a new mess. There was only one objection to the fulfilment of this wish: the regimental coffers were wellnigh empty.
「well nigh」の部分一致の例文検索結果
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and I confess the illustration was apt enough to make me well-nigh convinced.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
そして、ぼくは、この実例が十分な説得力のあるものだったことを素直に認めた。 - JACK LONDON『影と光』
Appearances have for some time indicated that all three impulses are well nigh spent;発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
ここのところ、これら三つの衝撃すべてがまったく費され尽くしたかの観がありますが、 - John Stuart Mill『自由について』
The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
時間はまだ夜10時にもなっていなかったが、小雨を含んだ冷たい風が通りから人々を追いたてていた。 - O Henry『二十年後』
Hook had well-nigh forgotten his prisoners, but as he swung round on them now his face lit up again.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
フックはほとんどコドモ達のことなんか忘れていたのですが、今、彼らの方へ振り向くフックの顔には再びかがやきがもどっているのでした。 - James Matthew Barrie『ピーターパンとウェンディ』
and, if he be right, the process is perfectly simple and comprehensible, and irresistibly deducible from very familiar but well nigh forgotten facts.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
もし彼が正しいなら、この過程はまったく単純でわかりやすいものであり、とてもありふれているが、ほとんどすっかり忘れられている事実から否応なしに導き出されるものなのです。 - Thomas H. Huxley『ダーウィン仮説』
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