It is strictly regulated that access to confidential documents is denied to all but a few.(严格地说,除了少数人之外,所有人都不准接触机密文件。)
Unfortunately, you must carry the necessary equipment with you, since it's all but impossible to find natural substitutes.(不幸的是,你必须随身携带必要的设备,因为几乎不可能找到天然的替代品。)
All but one of the plates were damaged.(除去一只,盘子全打碎了。)
Yet much of the land—moist black soil and extraordinary verdure—was all but empty.(然而,这里的大部分土地——潮湿的黑土和格外的青翠——几乎空空如也。)
With time, the lump grew, and it was all but impossible to find a veterinarian who would treat her since she was not a dog, cat or farm animal.(随着时间的推移,肿块渐渐长大,因为她不是狗、猫或农场动物,几乎不可能找到能治疗她的兽医。)
The concrete wall that used to divide this city has now all but gone.(这堵曾经被用来分隔这座城市的水泥墙现在差不多不存在了。)
Such changes are all but invisible over the short time scale of modern observations, and, it is argued, they are usually obscured by innumerable gaps in the imperfect fossil record.(这些变化在现代观测短时间范围内几乎是看不见的,而且,有人认为,这些变化常常被不完善的化石记录中的无数空白所掩盖。)
Herbalism had become an all but extinct skill in the Western world.(草药医术在西方世界几乎已成了一项绝迹的技术。)
One force behind the import-export boom has passed all but unnoticed: the rapidly falling cost of getting goods to market.(谁也没有注意到进出口贸易繁荣的另一个原因:商品抵达市场的运输成本迅速下降。)
He had never seen anything outside the window at all but he described beautiful scenes to help his friend feel better.(他从未见过窗外的景色,但他描述着美丽的景色让他朋友感觉舒服一点。)