Barely
['beəlɪ] or ['bɛrli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) only a very short time before; '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 leave'- W.B.Yeats.
恩里克錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) Without covering; nakedly.
(adv.) Without concealment or disguise.
(adv.) Merely; only.
(adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
伊夫林整理
同義詞及近義詞:
ad. Merely, simply, only.
伊内兹手打
同義詞及反義詞:
[See HARDLY]
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例句/造句/用法:
- He had barely got back, before you got back too. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You've barely time to catch the five-forty. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Though she said she never considered me young, I am barely thirty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Never before have men stood so barely face to face with the community of their interests and their common destiny. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The poles were two hundred feet apart and could barely hold up a wash-line. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A woman answered, and I barely had time to throw myself against the door--she would have been in, in another second. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Many inventors have barely escaped with their lives from the fury of mobs who thought the inventor would take their living from them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Barely, said Gurth, though the sum demanded was more reasonable than he expected, and it will leave my master nigh penniless. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I had then barely time to get my great-coat, lock up the chambers, and make for the coach-office by the short by-ways. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It was barely half-past seven when I went downstairs, but I found them both at the breakfast-table waiting for me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Sir William Siemens had said that the power of all the coal raised in the world would barely represent the power of Niagara. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The women made way for them, but barely sufficient, as if grudging to yield ground. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- If a gentle breeze is blowing, a barely perceptible opening of a window will give the needed amount, even if there are no additional drafts of fresh air into the room through cracks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There is barely room between Jos and Miss Sharp, who are on the front seat. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Nothing but the interest of her twenty thousand pounds--barely enough to pay our daily expenses. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This lowest price is that which barely replaces, with a moderate profit, the stock which must be employed in bringing the commodity thither. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This gentleman looked barely thirty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- His face showed no sign of excitement, though an assistant, standing near him, could barely keep still. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- What if six, continued Wamba, and we as we now are, barely two--would you not remember Locksley's horn? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Something must be done with Maggy too, who at present is--ha--barely respectable, barely respectable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The same tree, Anselmo said so low Jordan could barely hear him and he knew he was speaking without moving his lips as he had spoken that first day. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But it is barely possible that an accident may happen. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Edison, barely twenty-one years old, was a keen observer of the stirring events around him. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This notion had barely struck me--when who should appear at the end of the shrubbery walk but Rosanna Spearman in her own proper person! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I should not, perhaps, have to make the sacrifice long, as it wanted now barely three months to his departure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- We had barely taken our seats when he said to Mr. Jarndyce quite triumphantly, You would hardly suppose that I am Mrs. Bayham Badger's third! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- One by one, however, the ships managed to dip below the crests of the outlying hills until only one barely moving craft was in sight. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- At the time Edison was born, in 1847, telegraphy, upon which he was to leave so indelible an imprint, had barely struggled into acceptance by the public. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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