美 [ɔːl bət]
几乎，非常接近：表示某事物已经非常接近或几乎达到某种状态或情况。
... after all终于,毕竟;虽然这样 all but几乎,差一点;除...之外其余都 all out全力以赴,竭尽全力 ...
... a matter of （表示数量）近似量；几分钟（几块钱）的事 all but几乎，差不多；除了 hardly ever几乎从不 ...
... after all非常终,毕竟然;虽然这样 all but差不多,差一点;除...之外其余都 all out全力以赴,竭尽所能 ...
... all but几乎，差一点;除…之外其余都 all right令人满意的，不错的;(健康)良好的/行/可以 not at all(用来加强 not 的语气)一点也不;根本不 ...
几乎，差一点
It was all but impossible to read his writing.
他的笔迹几乎没法辨认。
Reiner, 56, has all but conceded the race to his rival.
56岁的赖纳差一点就向他的对手认输而使比赛结束。
Europe will be represented in all but two of the seven races.
7场比赛中除了2场之外, 都将有欧洲的代表参加。
All but one of the Great Lakes has a name from Native American languages: Michigan,Huron,Erie and Ontario.
VOA : special.2009.11.11
He was motionless, all but for one finger that moved up and down in front of his face as if he were marking time with it.
他一动也不动，除了一根手指在他的面前上下摆动,好像在用它标记时间。
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
But all they had to do is rediscover what the masters already knew.
但现在所做的都是之前的大师们已经所做过的。
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It said criminals earned all but four billion of that from the sex trade.
VOA : special.2009.06.08
All but one are attending public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia,outside Washington.
VOA : special.2009.11.05
Since capital gains were all but guaranteed, the thinking went, you could safely spend them.
Overnight, a strictly observed eight-hour curfew keeps all but the army off the streets.
ECONOMIST: Mixed feelings among Tamils at the prospect of the war��s end
In the 1970s and early 1980s Kodak all but ignored prospects in developing countries.