nigh
nigh 英 [naɪ] 美 [naɪ]
prep. 近于 adj. 在附近的；直接的 adv. 几乎；在附近地
- Nigh is an old-fashioned word that can be used as an adjective or adverb to mean near or nearly. Something that is nigh impossible — like knitting a sweater in one night — will be very difficult to accomplish.
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- prep. 近于
- adj. 在附近的；直接的
- adv. 几乎；在附近地
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1. I’m an experience junkie and I want to try everything at least once, which is nigh impossible when you see how many options there are in drugstores.
我对尝试新东西很上瘾，想把每样东西至少都试一次。 而当你看着药店里有多少种选择时，你就会发现这几乎是不可能的。
- nigh (adv.) "near," Old English neah (West Saxon), neh (Anglian), common Germanic (cognates: Old Saxon nah, Old Frisian nei, Middle Dutch, Dutch na, Old High German nah, German nah, Gothic nehwa), with no cognates outside Germanic. The Old English progression was neah - near - niehsta, for "nigh - near - next." But the comparative near and the superlative nehst (see next) gradually evolved into separate words not felt as related to nigh. New comparative and superlative forms nigher, nighest developed 14c. as phonetic changes obscured the original relationships. As an adjective from Middle English.
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