well-nigh

No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well-nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man-the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it.

没有人能够经营好这样的企业&在那里虽然有众多人手，但是令人惊讶的是，其中充满了许多碌碌无为的人，这些人要么没有能力，要么不情愿去集中精力做好一件事。

It's difficult or well-nigh impossible to systematically predict what's going to happen. You may think you know you're in a bubble, but you still can't tell whether things are going up or down the next day.

要系统性地预测未来会发生什么，是一件很难，甚至是几乎不可能的事。或许你认为知道自己处于泡沫之中，但你仍然无法断定第二天的涨跌。

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

她生来就喜爱音乐，那是她那位喜欢唱民歌的母亲遗传给她的，她这种爱好使最简单的音乐也具有了一种力量，有时候差不多能把她的心从胸膛里给掏出来。