Hardly

(adv.) almost not; 'he hardly ever goes fishing'; 'he was hardly more than sixteen years old'; 'they scarcely ever used the emergency generator'.

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• Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And he had hardly looked up, to see what the matter was, when he was stopped by having a pair of arms thrown tight round his neck. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Not but what myself and Micawber have our hands pretty full, in general, on account of Mr. Wickfield's being hardly fit for any occupation, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A serious occurrence that might have resulted in accident drove him soon after from Canada, although the youth could hardly be held to blame for it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I had seven different schemes for getting a glimpse of that telegram, but I could hardly hope to succeed the very first time. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He did not see her--he never did see her; he hardly knew that such a person existed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She had hardly expected it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• At supper, we were hardly so gay. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He had hardly made the determination (though he was not long about it), when he was again as suddenly brought up as he had been by the stoppage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It need hardly be remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I am such a sufferer that I hardly dare hope to enjoy much of your society. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I used to pray so much--now I hardly ever pray. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Laura was certainly not chargeable with any exaggeration, in writing me word that I should hardly recognise her aunt again when we met. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A good patriot, said the other, could hardly have been more afflicted if the Aristocrat had drawn a blank. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• She will hardly be less hurt, I suppose, by Robert's marrying Lucy, than she would have been by your marrying her. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• If I had been round the world since we parted, we could hardly have been better pleased to meet again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She hardly knew what to say. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Emma could hardly understand him; he seemed in an odd humour. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• He was a great genius, and a noble character, yet hardly capable of feeling or understanding anything external to his own theology. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He did not leave the stile, and I hardly liked to ask to go by. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Hardly a night passed without my dreaming of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The snow blew in our faces so we could hardly see. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He seemed to consider himself hardly less indebted to me, than to Mr. Micawber; which I consider (as I told him) quite a compliment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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