scarcely

释义

adv.

刚；几乎不；勉强；简直不

网络

仅仅；几乎没有；刚刚

常用短语 2 组

scarcely any

几乎没有

scarcely ever

几乎从不；很少；极难得

在例句中理解 34 句

1. He could scarcely pronounce my name but he taught me that it is not how much we give but how much love we put in the giving.

   他连我的名字都说不清楚，但他教给我：重要的不在于我们给了多少，而是在我们给的时候有多少爱。

2. On this Friday afternoon, scarcely two days after his previous visit, he made up his mind to see Carrie. He could not stay away longer.

   这个星期五下午，离上次拜望相隔还没到两天，他就决定去看嘉莉。他无法再等了。

3. He would have said that she had scarcely thought of the child, so stilly had she gone about her work, day in and day out.

   他本以为她差不多没有想过肚子里的孩子，一天到晚总忙着干活，一声不语的。

4. By the time she graduated from high school, at the age of twenty, she had scarcely ever heard anyone speak ill of Scientology.

   她20岁从高中毕业之时，她还几乎从来没有听过任何人说山达基有什么不好。

5. He had scarcely sat down inside, when the trembling grew stronger, and he had a severe nervous seizure.

   他刚在车子里坐下，便抽搐得更厉害了，这是一次真正的全身痉挛。

6. Elizabeth could not oppose such a wish; and from this time Mr. Bingley's name was scarcely ever mentioned between them.

   伊丽莎白无法反对她这种愿望，从此以后，她们就不大提起彬格莱先生的名字。

7. But I thought I would have done much better than this, yet, here I AM and I have scarcely lived up to Your example.

   但是我认为我应该做的更好些，然而，我在这儿，跟你的榜样比起来，我简直像没活过。

8. I can scarcely think of buying a pint of milk without thinking it would be so much better if he were dead first.

   如果不想到他若死了一切就好，怕一瓶牛奶我也不会去买的。

9. Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.

   在未来的时代，可能极少有人相信，这样一个血肉之躯曾经在地球上匆匆走过。

10. You can scarcely believe how little you know of your story in a first or second draft until you reach the fourth or fifth.

    你几乎不能相信，在写第一、第二稿时，你对这个故事的了解是何等不足，直到第四第五稿，你才能领悟到这一点。

11. The rapid growth and development in science has scarcely slowed at any time since the beginning of this period.

    自从这一时期开始以来，科学的迅速成长与发展就几乎没有再减缓过。

12. He feared that even yet he might be seized and taken back, so he tried to conceal his movements, but it was scarcely possible.

    他害怕即使在这个时候，他还可能被抓住，被押送回去，所以他试图隐蔽自己的行动，但这几乎不可能做到。

13. A few seconds delay to everyone on the train is an appreciable social loss, but scarcely matters to the selfish individual in question.

    地铁上每个人都被耽误几秒钟，是一种不小的社会损失，但对于我们讨论的那些自私的人而言，却无关紧要。

14. Hockin had scarcely any breath to tell us anything, as she came in through the door.

    霍金夫人走进门以后几乎没有力气跟我们说话。

15. The huge bird seemed to hang in the air, borne by the wind currents, soaring with scarcely a beat of its huge, powerful wings.

    那只大鸟好像被气流托浮着停在空中，几乎不用拍动它那对巨大而有力的翅膀就能翱翔。

16. She lay, scarcely moving on her bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house.

    她病倒了，躺在床上几乎一动不动，只能隔着小窗望着隔壁砖房那单调沉闷的侧墙。

17. He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation; his brow contracted, his air gloomy.

    他好象完全没有听到她的话，只是在房间里踱来踱去，煞费苦心地在深思默想。他双眉紧蹙，满脸忧愁。

18. But I had scarcely shut my eyes when something that fell by me with a great noise awaked me.

    但是我几乎没有闭上过我的眼睛，当时我感觉到些什么带着巨大的响声吵醒了我。

19. The deep-sea diver had scarcely reached the bottom when a message came from the surface which left him in a dilemma.

    深海潜水员刚小心翼翼地到达海底，水面上传来的一条消息让他进退两难。

20. It is the only compassion that seems acceptable to us: a feeling that perhaps you hardly understand and that seems to you scarcely virile.

    这看似是唯一我们所能够接受的怜悯：这种感情你们几乎无法理解，对你们而言，这似乎缺乏阳刚之气。

21. Hate him she did not quite; but he was dust and ashes to her, and even for her name's sake she scarcely wished to marry him.

    她也并不十分恨他；不过在她看来，他不过是一撮尘土，即使为了自己的名声打算，她也几乎没有想过要嫁给他。

22. Their retreats have come in a changing landscape for hedge funds, pools of money that were once scarcely regulated at all.

    他们的退出对昔日乏于管制的冲基金带来了巨大的改变。

23. To say that Jon Forsyte accompanied his mother to Spain unwillingly would scarcely have been adequate.

    要说乔恩·福尔赛不愿意随母亲上西班牙去，那是一点不正确的。

24. He bounded off as she spoke, scarcely stopping to listen, for it was so delightful for him to breathe the fresh air and be free again.

    他随着她说话就跳开了，几乎都没有听她说，因为对于他来说呼吸新鲜的空气和重获自由是如此的令人开心。

25. The two men were in the most harrowed state of affection. They scarcely heard the few remaining words with which the scene concluded.

    这两个男人倍受爱情的煎熬，十分痛苦，几乎没有听到这一场结束时的几句话。

26. Man was not sufficiently ready to receive this truth then and is scarcely ready to receive it now.

    当时人类尚未充分准备好接受这个真理，并且现在也几乎没有准备去接受它。

27. At times this deep strain of pathos was all that could be heard, and scarcely heard, sighing amid a desolate silence.

    那低沉而悲怆的旋律时时成为你所能听到的全部声音，隐约地在凄凉的沉默之中哀叹。

28. The image of the United States could scarcely be at a lower ebb. But in Asia, at least, anger at the U. S. may be turning to sorrow.

    但至少在亚洲，对美国的愤怒可能变成悲痛。

29. Scarcely a year previously, his father, Percival, had been convicted of a savage and well-publicized attack upon three young Muggles.

    近一年前，他的父亲，珀西瓦尔，因为公然使用暴力攻击三个年轻麻瓜而被定罪。

30. He thought himself in a sepulchre , into which a ray of sunlight in pity scarcely penetrated.

    他以为自己是躺在一个坟墓里，一缕阳光象一道怜悯的眼光似的从外面透进来。

31. The city had scarcely changed in 20 years.

    这座城市20年中几乎没有什么改变。

32. The country had scarcely any industry.

    该国几乎没有工业。

33. He scarcely ever left the region.

    他几乎没有离开过这个地区。

34. He had scarcely sat down when there was a knock at the door.

    他刚坐下就有人敲门。