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问

New Concept English, Book 2, L. 52 有一道练习题:

I (near) (nearly) missed the bus this morning.

答案为 nearly。但我搞不清楚句子的真正意义:到底是“我差点儿没赶上公共汽车”,还是“我差点赶上了公共汽车”呢?

答

如同 almost 一样, nearly 放在动词前时表示眼看就要发生而实际上并未发生的事。也就是说, nearly 实质上是对动词的否定, 尽管是轻微的否定。

  1. He was nearly run over by a car. (New Concept English, Book 2, L. 52) 他差点儿被一辆汽车压过去。(实际上他未被压着)

  2. The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water. (New Concept English, Book 2, L. 30) 球重重地击在他身上，他差点儿掉进河里去。(实际上他未掉进河里去)

  3. I nearly fell off my bike. (PEU) 我差点儿(没)从自行车上摔下来。

  4. I nearly stopped and asked what he wanted. (PEU) 我差点儿停下来问他有什么事。[参见 almost, miss(v.) 3^{3} ]

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“Do you like those kinds of cigarette?” “_____ cigarette agrees with me.” A. Hardly no B. Nearly no C. Rarely no D. Almost none(《新编大学英语四·六级常考词题库》，中国广播电视出版社，1996，p.408，nearly 条) 该书给的答案为 B(Nearly no)。请问 nearly 能与否定词连用吗？

答

这道试题本身是错误的。nearly在用法上有一个明显的特点，就是它不能与否定词连用。CGEL对此说得很清楚：

“Both the downtoners almost and practically can intensify all indefinite pronouns, whereas nearly can intensify only assertive pronouns. Compare:

Almost Practically } {everybody all } came. Almost Practically * Nearly } {nobody came. any time will do. no compensation was given. " (CGEL, p. 450)

（“almost 和 practically 这两个减弱语可以减弱所有的不定代词的语意，而 nearly 则只能减弱断定代词的语意。请比较：

不难看出, 答案 B(Nearly no) 是错误的。能否选 D(Almost none) 呢? 也不能! 因为 none 不能用作形容词来修饰名词(cigarette)。因此, 上题应加上一个正确答案 Almost no。(参见 no/none)

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