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副詞

nothing like (not comparable)

1. Not nearly.

   Ten years ago travel was nothing like as easy (as it is now).

   It was nothing like that.

   • 1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 45, page 98:

     Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […] . But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

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