barely
adv. 勉強; 幾乎不; 剛剛…(就)
You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case.
Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital...
阿納斯塔西婭幾乎記不起來怎麼去的醫院。
It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room...
當時氣溫達到了90度,空調也不能讓房間涼快多少。
If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.
The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open...
這架波音767剛剛停住,它的艙門就彈開了。
Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.
推土機剛一啟動,倫敦博物館的考古學家們就蜂擁而至了。
1. by a small margin;
2. in a sparse or scanty way;
hardly, scarcely, barely
這些副詞均含"幾乎不"之意。
Their performance is barely satisfactory.
他們的表演尚差強人意.
He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.
他賺很少的錢僅夠孩子們勉強餬口.
His handwriting is barely legible.
他的字真難認.
His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.
他的嘴角彎了彎,露出一絲幾乎察覺不到的笑容.
He barely caught the train.
他勉強趕上火車.