| 词汇 | barely |
| 释义 | barelyUK:*/ˈbɛərli/US:/ˈbɛrli/ ,(bâr′lē)UK-RP:UK-Yorkshire:Irish:Scottish:Jamaican: 主要翻译 barely adv (only just)仅仅，勉强There is barely enough food for everyone at the party.食物只是勉勉强强够参加聚会的每个人吃。usage: ‘barely’Barely is an adverb. It has a totally different meaning from bare. You use barely to say that something is only just true or possible. For example, if you can barely do something, you can only just do it. If something is barely noticeable, you can only just notice it.It was so dark we could barely see.His whisper was barely audible.Be carefulDon't use ‘not’ with barely. Don't say, for example, ‘The temperature was not barely above freezing’. You say ‘The temperature was barely above freezing’.Be carefulIf you use an auxiliary verb or modal with barely, you put the auxiliary verb or modal first. You say, for example, ‘He can barely read’. Don't say ‘He barely can read’. The audience could barely hear him.You can use barely to say that one thing happened immediately after another. For example, you can say ‘We had barely started the meal when Jane arrived’. Be carefulYou use when or before after barely. Don't use ‘than’. Don't say, for example, ‘We had barely started the meal than Jane arrived’.I had barely arrived before he led me to the interview room.They had barely sat down when they were told to leave. barely adv (not quite)刚刚I had barely sat down when there was a knock at the door.听到敲门声时，我才刚刚坐下。 barely adv (hardly)刚刚My sister is barely 15 and already she's taller than me.我妹妹刚满15岁，就已经比我高了。 barely adv (decorated, furnished: sparsely)贫乏地；几乎没有地Her love of minimalism was evident in her barely-adorned home.她的家中几乎没有什么装饰，很明显，她非常热爱极简主义。 其他翻译 barely adv archaic (openly)公开地；公然地；毫不隐蔽地The army was barely assembled on top of the hill.军队公开地在山头集合。 复合形式： barely audible adj (sound: very faint) (声音)微弱的，几乎听不见的His voice over the telephone was barely audible. barely coherent adv + adj (person: not talking sense)无条理的；不连贯的He'd been drinking so heavily he was barely coherent. barely coherent adv + adj (speech, argument: not making sense)无含义的；无法理解的 barely legal adv + adj informal (girl: just past age of consent) (女孩)刚刚成年；刚满合法年龄She was barely legal when they first slept together. barely see [sth] adv + vtr (have difficulty seeing)几乎看不见备注: Usually preceded by "can"She could barely see the road through the thick snow. can barely see v expr (have poor sight)几乎看不见 |
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