next to nothing

基本解釋

Maybe because there are so few Icelanders in the world, we know next to nothing about them.
可能是由於這個世界上幾乎沒有人生活在冰島上，我們幾乎一點也不了解他們。
Killing wolves costs the state next to nothing: volunteer pilots and hunters perform the task.
獵狼對州政府來說幾乎沒有成本：飛行員志願者和獵人們來執(zhí)行這一任務。
In fact, raising product quality costs next to nothing if you do it correctly.
事實上，提高産品質量基本上沒有成本，如果你正確地做的話。

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.
但彌爾頓知道上帝對他的召喚,是成爲一個有名的英語詩人，一個用英語寫作的英語詩人：,他必須服從這個召喚,盡琯他看上去不會寫任何英語詩歌。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
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.
毫無疑問，初次閲讀《失樂園》的讀者,會覺得震驚全然是因爲它的內容，這首詩內容本身就是令人震驚的。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
You can start from one nucleus and go to the next nucleus, and there are no zero planes, no nodes, nothing.
你可以從一個核出發(fā),看曏另一個核，中間沒有零平麪，沒有節(jié)點，什麼也沒有。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態(tài)化學導論課程節(jié)選

Once a drug is in production, churning out one more little pill costs next to nothing.
FORBES: Gouging The Drug Companies