喜樂美語
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    Nigh is an old word for 'near' or 'almost'. You do not hear it much in normal talk today — mostly in old writing, in the Bible, or when someone wants to sound serious or a little funny and old-fashioned, like 'the end is nigh' (the end is coming soon).

    「接近；快到了」（較古老、文言的說法）

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同家族的字

  • nearnigh 和 near 是同一個古英文字根演變出來的，意思都跟「接近」有關
  • nextnext 原本是 nigh 的最高級形式，意思是「最接近的」

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Nighname

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    A surname.

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    A surname.

nighadj/naɪ/

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    archaicNear, close by.

    • The end is nigh!
    • Daybreak is drawing nigh.
  • 2

    Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.

    • Ye […] are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

nighverb/naɪ/

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    to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near

    • When the charnel-eyed Pale Horse has nighed

nighadv/naɪ/

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    Almost, nearly.

    • So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.[…]It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.
    • Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red cloaks.

nighprep/naɪ/

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    near; close to

    • When the Moon is horned […] is it not ever nigh the Sun?
    • The cottage stood nigh the burn, in a little garden, with lilyoaks and grosart bushes lining the pathway.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。