In summer, success would have been well–nigh certain.

现在如果是夏天，那就可以说成功在望了。

I have a wife, and three angelic babes, Who, by those looks, are well nigh fatherless.

我有一个妻子，还有三个天使般的孩子，可是他们就要没有父亲了。

The carbon emissions produced when peatlands burn may be well nigh irreversible.

泥炭地燃烧产生的碳排放可能几乎是不可逆转的。

Her drooping form and hollow cheeks too plainly indicated that she had well nigh reached the end of her weary road.

她下垂的身躯和凹陷的脸颊太明显地表明她已经快走到疲倦之路的尽头了。

The competition of the two companies with the private traders, and with one another, is said to have well nigh ruined both.

据说这两家公司与私人商人之间的竞争，以及彼此之间的竞争，几乎毁掉了双方。

You don't get enough sleep, everybody's working really hard, and then you add water to it and it becomes well nigh impossible or insurmountable.

你没有得到足够的睡眠，每个人都非常努力地工作，然后你给它加水，它变得几乎不可能或无法克服。

The time was barely ten o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets.

时间还不到晚上十点，但带着雨味的寒风却几乎让街道上的人流稀少。

By thus parting good friends, the natural affection of the colonies to the mother country, which, perhaps, our late dissensions have well nigh extinguished, would quickly revive.

通过这样分开好朋友，殖民地对祖国的自然感情，也许，我们最近的纷争几乎已经熄灭，将很快恢复。

He had permission to visit her once a fortnight, but he was growing old, as has been said, and truth to say, had latterly well nigh forgotten her.

他获准每两周去看望她一次，但正如已经说过的那样， 他正在变老， 说实话，最近几乎忘记了她。

So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land.

所以，凭借这个身怀绝技的猎手的经验，这人尽皆知的写在水上的东西—航迹，对于他全然渴望达到的目的来说，就和稳固的陆地一样可靠。

The East India trade of all these nations, if we except that of the French, which the last war had well nigh annihilated, has been almost continually augmenting.

所有这些国家的东印度贸易，如果我们排除法国的贸易，法国的贸易几乎在上次战争中被彻底摧毁，几乎一直在增加。

For instance, at the house of one of them, the district commissary of police had found two hundred and forty-eight pairs of pink gloves stolen from well nigh every shop in Paris.

例如，在其中一人的家中，地区警察局在巴黎的每家商店附近都发现了 248 双粉红色手套被盗。

Almost renouncing all thought of falling in with any game hereabouts, the ship had well nigh entered the straits, when the customary cheering cry was heard from aloft, and ere long a spectacle of singular magnificence saluted us.

大家几乎都放弃了在这附近遇到猎物的念头。船已经快要进入海峡了，就在这时，桅顶上传来惯常的欢呼声，不久，一个异常宏伟的奇观就在迎接我们了。