我们今天来讨论一位同学对下面这句中文的翻译是否正确，中文如下：那道题太难了，他几乎答不上来。翻译如下：

【误】The question was so hard that he could almost not answer it.

在我们进行翻译的时候，要翻译“几乎不”这个意思，只能够用hardly，scarcely这两个词表示否定，不能用almost not。

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【误】She said almost nothing at the meeting.

她在会议上几乎什么也没说。

【正】She said hardly nothingat the meeting.

【正】She has changed so much that I can scarcely recognize her.

她改变这么大，我几乎认不出来了。

我们今天分析的这位同学的翻译应该这样修改：

【正】The question was so hard that he could hardly answer it.

【正】The question was so hard that he could scarcely answer it.

简而言之，记住翻译中文中的“几乎不”，不能用“almost not”，可以用hardly或者是用scarcely这2个表示否定的词。