not nearly (=by no means，far from) 远不
例1: The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.考试大
译文：食品供应将远远赶不上人口的增长，这就意味着我们在粮食的生产和购销方面正面临危机。
注：1) this是指上面提到的“到21世纪初世界人口将增加到60亿或70亿”。2) 又如：There are not nearly enough people here to do the job.(这里的人手远远不够承担这项工作。)
“更不用说”的表示法：
much less
still less
以上两短语引导的词组或从句，表示一种追加的否定，less是由little的比较级，所以这两个词组只能用于否定句中，可译为“更不用说，更不必说”。
to say nothing of
not to speak of
not to mention
let alone
这四个词组也意为 “更不用说”，也是一种追补的说法。但它们与much less和still less有所不同。这些词组可以随前一句的意思而定，即前一句是肯定，则追加的也是肯定意义;如果前一句是否定，则追加的是否定意义
例1：I could not agree to, much less participate in such proceedings.
译文：我不能同意这种行为，更谈不上参加这些行动了。
例2：He knows little of mathematics, and still less of chemistry.
译文：他几乎不懂数学，更不用说化学了。
例3：I did not even see him, still less (= much less) shake hands with him.
译文：我看也没有看见过他，哪里还谈得上同他握手呢?
例4：In old China, here was hardly any machine-building industry, to say nothing of an electronic industry.
译文：在旧中国，几乎没有什么机器制造工业，更不用说电子工业了。
例5：Sally takes singing and dancing lessons, to say nothing of swimming and tennis lessons.
译文：莎莉学了唱歌和舞蹈课，而且还学了游泳和网球课。
