OG13TH 103题正确答案almost entirely不属于redundant吗？

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Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world’s social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.

A.    wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of
B.    wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of
C.    which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all
D.    which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely
E.    living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all

OG13TH 103题正确答案almost entirely不属于redundant吗？

HarrisZheng

为啥redundant ？

几乎所有 不等于 几乎 也不等于 所有

DUKB24

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almost entirely 这个结构有没有redundancy？（Ron）：


no, "almost entirely" is not redundant; it has a fundamentally different meaning from that of "entirely".


basically, "entirely" means "100%".
"almost entirely" means "close to 100%, but not quite".