This quality we can call nearliness.

这种特质我们称之为“nearliness（功败垂成）”。

Obviously we're all familiar with near, and nearly, but nearliness is really new.

无疑，我们都熟悉near和nearly，但nearliness确实是个新词。

So nearliness is the quality of 'being nearly there, but not quite'.

所以nearliness就是“十分接近又不完全是”的特性。

Nearliness is an example of creating a new word by adding a suffix to an existing word, and so changing its word class.

给现有的单词加上后缀形成新词，并因此改变词性，“nearliness”就是这样的一个例子。

He's good – he wins – but does he have what it really takes to be popular in Britain? Does he have enough nearliness?

他很出色，经常赢得比赛，但是他有在英国变得家喻户晓的资本吗？他有足够的功败垂成的特性吗？