next to nothing

基本解释

Maybe because there are so few Icelanders in the world, we know next to nothing about them.
可能是由于这个世界上几乎没有人生活在冰岛上，我们几乎一点也不了解他们。
Killing wolves costs the state next to nothing: volunteer pilots and hunters perform the task.
猎狼对州政府来说几乎没有成本：飞行员志愿者和猎人们来执行这一任务。
In fact, raising product quality costs next to nothing if you do it correctly.
事实上，提高产品质量基本上没有成本，如果你正确地做的话。

But Milton's calling -- this is what John Milton knew his calling was to be a famous English poet, a famous English poet writing in English: a calling that he holds despite the fact that he appears to have written next to nothing in English verse.
但弥尔顿知道上帝对他的召唤,是成为一个有名的英语诗人，一个用英语写作的英语诗人：,他必须服从这个召唤,尽管他看上去不会写任何英语诗歌。
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There's no question that the shock experienced by the first readers of Paradise Lost had next to nothing to do with the content of this poem, which might strike us as shocking in itself.
毫无疑问，初次阅读《失乐园》的读者,会觉得震惊全然是因为它的内容，这首诗内容本身就是令人震惊的。
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You can start from one nucleus and go to the next nucleus, and there are no zero planes, no nodes, nothing.
你可以从一个核出发,看向另一个核，中间没有零平面，没有节点，什么也没有。
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Once a drug is in production, churning out one more little pill costs next to nothing.
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