Scarcely
['skeəslɪ] or ['skɛrsli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
(adv.) Frugally; penuriously.
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同義詞及近義詞:
ad. Hardly, barely, but just, with difficulty.
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例句/造句/用法:
- There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- From then on scarcely a day passed that did not bring its offering of game or other food. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He scarcely ever took a meal in the house; he lived in the counting-house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The polite pupil was scarcely gone, when, unceremoniously, without tapin burst a second intruder. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In a moment they saw him, and then me; but scarcely had they discovered me than I commenced firing, lying flat upon my belly in the moss. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I scarcely knew how to accost her; she was not to be managed like another child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I occupy my own rooms, and have held scarcely any communication with them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Scarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He bowed very slightly without speaking, and the smile with which he greeted his lordship was scarcely perceptible. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The moon was not yet set, and we were all in shadow: I could scarcely see my master's face, near as I was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The entry was scarcely completed when they reached the Golden Cross. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- You could scarcely walk there and back without a longer rest than I shall take. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will scarcely controvert. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He had scarcely set foot without the house, when his father stood before him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I saw then that there was scarcely a chance of this ever becoming a practicable route for moving troops through an enemy's country. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- And, indeed, in two or three days, such a change has passed over Cassy, that our readers would scarcely know her. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- At night, naked and scarcely pro tected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous c limate, they slept on the wet ground coiled up like animals. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- She scarcely acknowledges these parting words by any look, but when he has been gone a little while, she rings her bell. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- When the coach turned into it, his heart beat so violently, that he could scarcely draw his breath. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Scarcely had it started than I gave the signal to Tars Tarkas, simultaneously springing for the receding half of the pivoting door. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He sprang down from the platform and grasped her roughly by the arm, but scarcely had he touched her than I leaped between them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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