| 词汇 | scarcely |
| 释义 | scarcely adverb uk /ˈskeəs.li/ us /ˈskers.li/ scarcelyadverb (ONLY JUST)C2 almost not: 勉强；几乎不 I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident.那场事故以后，我的手臂几乎不能动了。 I could scarcely believe it when she said she wanted to marry me.当她说想要跟我结婚时，我简直无法相信。 used to say that something happened immediately after something else happened: 刚…就 I had scarcely sat down/Scarcely had I sat down to eat when the phone rang.我刚坐下，电话铃就响了。 Synonyms barely hardly I scarcely registered the fact that he was there.我几乎没有注意到他在那儿。 I scarcely heard him laugh all night. The city centre has scarcely changed in over a century.一百多年来市中心几乎没有变化。 She spoke so quietly that I could scarcely hear her. By this time he was so drunk he could scarcely stand up. Merely and barely all all of somethingidiom at a pinchidiom barely but by a whiskeridiom by inchesidiom hardly ill inch just little mere merely merest narrowly nothing more thanidiom only scarce whisker You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Before, after and already Closeness in distance and time scarcelyadverb (NOT)certainly not: 当然不！ I'd scarcely have done it if I didn't think it was absolutely necessary!要是当时我认为并非完全必要的话，我决不会这么干的。 He's only two - you can scarcely blame him for behaving badly.他只有两岁——不听话你也不能怪他。 Synonym hardly Yes, no & not a sure thingidiom affirmation affirmatively ain't betcha bit didn't does a bear/do bears shit in the woods?idiom far hardly not thatidiom opposed self-negating slight sure wasn't weren't wouldn't be seen deadidiom yes you betidiom GrammarScarcely Scarcely means ‘almost not at all’. It is quite formal. It usually comes in the normal mid position for adverbs (between the subject and the main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb): … scarcely | American Dictionaryscarcely adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈskeərs·li/ scarcelyadverb[not gradable] (ONLY JUST)only just or almost not: I could scarcely move my arm after the accident. scarcelyadverb[not gradable] (NOT)fml certainly not: He would scarcely have broken it on purpose. Examples of scarcelyscarcely As if this were not complication enough, many commentators have suggested that he is really discussing subjects that he scarcely or never mentions. Herding distances are scarcely further than five kilometres from the villages. They appear to offer a degree of access to the multiple layers of the private and public self that is scarcely paralleled in other documents. He adds, however, that the music is 'scarcely pastoral in any distinctive sense'. Commanding officers on both sides would scarcely have tolerated longer-term co-operation. At the same time, the deliberative experience scarcely made the participants soft on crime. Experience had shown that few people selected voluntary insurance of this sort, and that those who did were scarcely those most in need of it. The person who told me of this declaration had scarcely understood him and explained himself even worse. Microphone: used as a tool for capturing sounds, but also used as a magnifying tool to listen to the scarcely audible. From 1850 onwards, scarcely 1 per cent of men married before the age of 20. In this long account, the author's sympathy for the leaders of the separate denominations gives way to scarcely concealed contempt. The condition of universal domain is scarcely contestable. In its present state it is scarcely recommendable. The broadcast flows along with scarcely any differentiation between shows. The division into a historical and an ideological part was scarcely mentioned at all. See all examples of scarcely These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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