Practically

(adv.) in a practical manner; 'practically orientated institutions such as business schools'; 'a brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely'.

(adv.) almost; nearly; 'practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train'; 'he was practically the only guest at the party'; 'there was practically no garden at all'.

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• They say, don't they, he went on, that the secretary helped her to get away from her brute of a husband, who kept her practically a prisoner? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• This attitude is what is practically meant by will. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• M. Le Gray, of Paris, was the first to suggest collodion for this purpose, but Mr. Scott Archer, of London, in 1851, was the first to carry it out practically. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Practically Attalus handed over his country to be looted. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Memphis therefore was practically isolated from the balance of the command. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Indeed, without this tireless minutiae, and methodical, searching spirit, it would have been practically impossible to have produced many of the most important of these inventions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The limits imposed practically were such as to require that the system should not cost more than a cable road to install. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The bark of trees made into a liquor has been used for centuries in treating practically all kinds of hides. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We see that the source of carbon dioxide is practically inexhaustible, coming as it does from every stove, furnace, and candle, and further with every breath of a living organism. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If the distance is short, so that few air particles are involved, the time required for transmission is very brief, and the sound is heard at practically the instant it is made. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Practically alone he was obliged to continue his work. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But in this case the Italian boat was on the surface and was at the time practically a surface ship. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This was the discovery that gave us practically the modern steam-engine, with its countless uses in unnumbered fields. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In Britain Latin was practically wiped out by the conquering Anglo-Saxons, from among whose various dialects the root stock of English presently grew. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Practically I find that what is called being apostolic now, is an impatience of everything in which the parson doesn't cut the principal figure. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• And this compound engine is practically the very engine that we have to-day. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• By using combinations of two or more lenses of various kinds, it is possible to have an image of almost any desired size, and in practically any desired position. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Practically all small railroad stations and local telegraph offices use these cells. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In the summer the water cools the region; in the winter, on the contrary, the water heats the region, and hence extremes of temperature are practically unknown. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The market was practically as free and open as if no patent existed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Practically all household filters of drinking water are made of charcoal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Those men in Washington, most of them lawyers, are so educated that they are practically incapable of meeting a new condition. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Did you ever realize that practically all industrial chemistry is colloidal in its nature? 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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