Hardly
['hɑːdlɪ] or ['hɑrdli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) almost not; 'he hardly ever goes fishing'; 'he was hardly more than sixteen years old'; 'they scarcely ever used the emergency generator'.
布兰得利整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
(adv.) Unwillingly; grudgingly.
(adv.) Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
(adv.) Severely; harshly; roughly.
(adv.) Confidently; hardily.
(adv.) Certainly; surely; indeed.
埃米尔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
ad. [1]. Scarcely, barely, but just, almost not.[2]. Severely, rigorously, unkindly, cruelly, roughly.
阿纳托尔校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Barely, just, scarcely, narrowly, merely
ANT:Fully, amply, easily, largely, abundantly
艾伯特整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And he had hardly looked up, to see what the matter was, when he was stopped by having a pair of arms thrown tight round his neck. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Not but what myself and Micawber have our hands pretty full, in general, on account of Mr. Wickfield's being hardly fit for any occupation, sir. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A serious occurrence that might have resulted in accident drove him soon after from Canada, although the youth could hardly be held to blame for it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I had seven different schemes for getting a glimpse of that telegram, but I could hardly hope to succeed the very first time. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He did not see her--he never did see her; he hardly knew that such a person existed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She had hardly expected it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- At supper, we were hardly so gay. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He had hardly made the determination (though he was not long about it), when he was again as suddenly brought up as he had been by the stoppage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It need hardly be remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I am such a sufferer that I hardly dare hope to enjoy much of your society. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I used to pray so much--now I hardly ever pray. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Laura was certainly not chargeable with any exaggeration, in writing me word that I should hardly recognise her aunt again when we met. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A good patriot, said the other, could hardly have been more afflicted if the Aristocrat had drawn a blank. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- She will hardly be less hurt, I suppose, by Robert's marrying Lucy, than she would have been by your marrying her. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- If I had been round the world since we parted, we could hardly have been better pleased to meet again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She hardly knew what to say. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Emma could hardly understand him; he seemed in an odd humour. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He was a great genius, and a noble character, yet hardly capable of feeling or understanding anything external to his own theology. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He did not leave the stile, and I hardly liked to ask to go by. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Hardly a night passed without my dreaming of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The snow blew in our faces so we could hardly see. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- He seemed to consider himself hardly less indebted to me, than to Mr. Micawber; which I consider (as I told him) quite a compliment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
艾伯特整理