| 词汇 | hardly |
| 释义 | hardlyUK:*/ˈhɑːrdli/US:/ˈhɑrdli/ ,(härd′lē)UK-RP:UK-Yorkshire:Irish:Scottish:US Southern:Jamaican: 主要翻译 hardly adv (only just)几乎不；几乎没有The kitten was hardly any bigger than the palm of my hand.这小猫还没有手掌大。usage: ‘hardly’Hardly is an adverb. It has a totally different meaning from hard. You use hardly to modify a statement when you want to emphasize that only a small amount or detail makes it true, and it is best to consider the opposite as true. For example, if someone hardly speaks, they do not speak much. If something is hardly surprising, it is not very surprising.I hardly knew him.Nick hardly slept because he was so worried.If you use an auxiliary verb or modal with hardly, you put the auxiliary verb or modal first. You say, for example, ‘I can hardly see’. Don't say ‘I hardly can see’.Two years before, the wall had hardly existed.She can hardly wait to begin.We could hardly move.Be carefulDon't use ‘not’ with hardly. Don't say, for example, ‘I did not hardly know him’. Say ‘I hardly knew him’.Hardly is sometimes used in longer structures to say that one thing happened immediately after another. The local police had hardly finished their search when the detectives arrived.Be carefulIn structures like these you use when, not ‘than’. Don't say, for example, ‘The local police had hardly finished their search than the detectives arrived’.In stories, hardly is sometimes put at the beginning of a sentence, followed by had or the verb be and the subject.Hardly had he uttered the words when he began laughing. hardly adv emphatic (scarcely, not)仅仅；不过Holly is hardly the kind of person who can raise a child.霍利就不是那种能抚养孩子的人。 hardly adv (unlikely)不太可能；不大可能Now that you've cut her pay, our programmer will hardly want to stay.既然你削减了她的薪酬，我们的程序员就不太可能继续留在这里了。 其他翻译 hardly adv archaic (harshly) (英国英语)严厉地The policeman treated the vagrant very hardly.警察对那名流浪汉严厉无情。 复合形式： can hardly wait v expr (feel impatient, excited)等不及地；迫不及待I can hardly wait for my birthday! This has been such a rotten day, I can hardly wait for it to be over. hardly any adj (few)几乎没有；极少After my brother discovered the cookies, there were hardly any left. hardly any adj (not much)几乎没有；鲜有；极少There's hardly any chance of Bob being promoted. hardly anything pron (almost nothing)几乎没有…There is hardly anything to eat in this house. hardly ever adv (rarely)几乎没有过；极为少见I hardly ever drink in the morning.我几乎没有在早上喝过酒。 hardly expect [sth] adv + vtr (unreasonable to anticipate)别指望；不要期望备注: often preceded by "can"One can hardly expect to see a vaccine being produced before the month is out. |
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