hardly

英[hɑ:dli]美[hɑ:dli]

ad.
刚刚，几乎不，勉强是

同：	[r.] barely, just, scarce, scarcely

hardly，scarcely，barely

这些副词均含“几乎不”之意。
hardly指接近最低限度，差不多没有多余，强调困难和程度。
scarcely指不太充分，不太够，不足，不能令人满意，强调数量。
barely指仅仅够，一点不多，强调没有多余。

I hardly ever know that aluminium alloy could be as strong as steel.
我几乎从来不知道铝合金竟会和钢强度一样大。收藏
They could hardly make both ends meet and their debts were piling up.
他们简直没法维持生活，因而债台高筑。收藏
The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.
常使喜马拉雅山的攀登者浮想联翩的雪人也不比此更难以捉摸。收藏
He and the proctor capped each other as they met, as if they were rival powers, and the man hardly knew which was the greater.
学监遇到他，也跟他彼此脱帽致意，仿佛他们在权力上是平等的，很难说谁大谁小。收藏
He could hardly sit still and itch to have a go.
他再也坐不住了,心里跃跃欲试。收藏

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by a small margin
- they could barely hear the speaker
- we hardly knew them
- just missed being hit
- had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
- would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to le
[同] hardly, just, barely, scarce, scarcely
almost not
- he hardly ever goes fishing
- he was hardly more than sixteen years old
- they scarcely ever used the emergency generator
[同] hardly, scarcely

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