It is strictly regulated that access to confidential documents is denied to all but a few.(嚴格地說，除了少數人之外，所有人都不準接觸機密文件。)

Unfortunately, you must carry the necessary equipment with you, since it's all but impossible to find natural substitutes.(不幸的是，你必須隨身攜帶必要的設備，因為幾乎不可能找到天然的替代品。)

All but one of the plates were damaged.(除去一只，盤子全打碎了。)

Yet much of the land—moist black soil and extraordinary verdure—was all but empty.(然而，這里的大部分土地——潮濕的黑土和格外的青翠——幾乎空空如也。)

With time, the lump grew, and it was all but impossible to find a veterinarian who would treat her since she was not a dog, cat or farm animal.(隨著時間的推移，腫塊漸漸長大，因為她不是狗、貓或農場動物，幾乎不可能找到能治療她的獸醫。)

The concrete wall that used to divide this city has now all but gone.(這堵曾經被用來分隔這座城市的水泥墻現在差不多不存在了。)

Such changes are all but invisible over the short time scale of modern observations, and, it is argued, they are usually obscured by innumerable gaps in the imperfect fossil record.(這些變化在現代觀測短時間范圍內幾乎是看不見的，而且，有人認為，這些變化常常被不完善的化石記錄中的無數空白所掩蓋。)

Herbalism had become an all but extinct skill in the Western world.(草藥醫術在西方世界幾乎已成了一項絕跡的技術。)

One force behind the import-export boom has passed all but unnoticed: the rapidly falling cost of getting goods to market.(誰也沒有注意到進出口貿易繁榮的另一個原因：商品抵達市場的運輸成本迅速下降。)

He had never seen anything outside the window at all but he described beautiful scenes to help his friend feel better.(他從未見過窗外的景色，但他描述著美麗的景色讓他朋友感覺舒服一點。)