参考词典中scarcely的常规释义:
基本释义
- ad. 几乎不,简直没有;刚…就…;仅仅,刚刚;决不
参考例句
- The old ferry is scarcely seaworthy.
这艘船已几乎不适于航海了。 - The car's bodywork scarcely holds together.
这汽车的车身简直都要散架了. - She looked apparently scarcely past girlhood.
她看起来简直完全是一个女孩子。 - He found the boredom scarcely endurable.
他觉得这种厌烦难以忍受 - He is scarcely trustworthy.
他不值得信赖
- The old ferry is scarcely seaworthy.
英英解释
2个副词解释
- by a small margin
[同] hardly, just, barely, scarce, scarcely
[例]- 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 le
- almost not
[同] hardly, scarcely
[例]- he hardly ever goes fishing
- he was hardly more than sixteen years old
- they scarcely ever used the emergency generator
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