not nearly (=by no means,far from) 遠(yuǎn)不
例1: The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.
譯文:食品供應(yīng)將遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)趕不上人口的增長(zhǎng),這就意味著我們?cè)诩Z食的生產(chǎn)和購(gòu)銷方面正面臨危機(jī)。
注:1) this是指上面提到的“到21世紀(jì)初世界人口將增加到60億或70億”。2) 又如:There are not nearly enough people here to do the job.(這里的人手遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠承擔(dān)這項(xiàng)工作。)
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