scarcely

['skɛəsli]

adv.几乎不, 简直不, 刚刚, 决不

ad.

1. 几乎不, 几乎没有

I can scarcely hear you.

我几乎听不见你讲话。

2. 决不

He can scarcely have said that.

他决不会说这种话的。

3. 不很; 大概不

I scarcely think so.

我可不这么想。

词形变化

形容词比较级: scarcer | 形容词最高级: scarcest | 名词: scarceness |

词义辨析

同义:

ad.好容易才, 几乎, 模糊地, 轻微地

barely  hardly  only just  just  with difficulty  not easily  dimly  slightly  not quite  merely  only

ad.不明确地, 不可能地

definitely not  certainly not  on no account  on no occasion  by no means  no way  in no way  not at all  not a bit  

同义参见:

skin  virtually  

英英释义

副词 scarcely:

by a small margin- W.B.Yeats

同义词：barely, hardly, just, scarce

almost not

同义词：hardly

补充

scarcelyscarcely英:[ˈskɛəsli] 美:[ˈskɛrsli]adv.1.仅仅; 几乎不We scarcely have time for breakfast.我们几乎没有吃早饭的时间。Scarcely do I know him.我同他不那么熟。We've scarcely any money left.我们几乎一点钱不剩。2.决不You can scarcely expect me to believe that.别以为我相信那件事。

例句

1. He was scarcely more than a child.他仅仅是个孩子。 2. scarcely a week goes by without the news providing fresh examples of police racism.几乎每周都有警察种族歧视事件发生。 3. I scarcely knew him.我和他几乎不相识。 4. I can scarcely believe it.我简直难以相信。 5. It can scarcely be coincidence.那几乎不可能是巧合。 6. It was scarcely in their interest to let too many people know.他们并不希望太多人知晓此事。 7. He could scarcely have had more difficult opponents.他几乎不会再遇到更难对付的对手了。 8. Bruce had scarcely shaken our hands when the phone rang.布鲁斯刚和我们握了握手, 电话铃就响了。 9. I can scarcely hear.我几乎什么也听不见。 10. to be scarcely the time to do something不是做某事的适当时间 11. You can scarcely have chosen better.恐怕你找不到更好的了。 12. He has scarcely gone for Tianjin.他刚走，去天津了。 13. her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying.她声音太小，我几乎听不到她说什么。 14. she had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open.她刚下马门就开了。 15. they could scarcely all be wrong.他们不可能全都错了。 16. There was scarcely a car in sight.几乎一辆车也看不见。 17. She's not a friend of mine. I scarcely know her.她不是我的朋友，我不认识她。 18. You can scarcely expect me to believe that after all you said before.听过你以前说的那许多话后，别以为我还会相信那个的。 19. He could scarcely control his joy.他几乎控制不住自己的喜悦。 20. scarcely a day goes by when they don't see or talk to each other.他们几乎天天见面交谈。 21. I had scarcely [=only just] closed the door when the doorbell rang again.我刚关上门，门铃又响了。 22. The truck scarcely [=just] made it underneath the low bridge.卡车勉强通过了那座矮桥。 23. He had scarcely enough money.他的钱勉强够。 24. This is scarcely a time to laugh.这绝不是笑的时候。 25. I could scarcely tell them they were wrong.我不可能跟他们说是他们错了。