| 词汇 | scarcely |
| 释义 | scarcelyWord family adverbscarcelynounscarcenessscarcityadjectivescarce scarce·ly /ˈskeəsli $ ˈsker-/ ●●○ adverbadv 1 JUST/ALMOST NOTalmost not or almost none at all 几乎不，几乎没有 SYN hardly The city had scarcely changed in 20 years. 这座城市20年中几乎没有什么改变。 The country had scarcely any industry. 该国几乎没有工业。 He scarcely ever left the region. 他几乎没有离开过这个地区。 can/could scarcely do something It was getting dark and she could scarcely see in front of her. 天色越来越黑，她几乎看不见眼前的东西。 scarcely a day/year/moment etc Scarcely a day goes by when I don’t think of him. 我几乎没有一天不想到他。 2 JUST/A MOMENT AGOonly a moment ago 仅仅，刚刚 SYN hardly, barely He had scarcely sat down when there was a knock at the door. 他刚坐下就有人敲门。 3 CERTAINLY/DEFINITELY#definitely not or almost certainly not 决不，一定不 SYN hardly Early March is scarcely the time of year for sailing. 三月初可不是帆船运动的季节。 n GRAMMAR: Word order Scarcely usually comes before a main verb: She scarcely said a word. Scarcely comes after the first auxiliary verb: I can scarcely believe he said that. ✗Don’t say: I scarcely can believe he said that.Scarcely usually comes after the verb ‘be’ when it is used in simple tenses such as ‘is’ or ‘was’: I was scarcely aware of the noise. You can use scarcely at the beginning of a sentence before an auxiliary, to emphasize that one thing happens very soon after another thing: Scarcely had they left the station than the train stopped. Examples from the Corpus scarcely• We've seen scarcely a drop of rain for over six months.• There can scarcely be any doubt that Sullivan is guilty.• Mutual deference could scarcely be carried farther.• It can scarcely be imagined that he would have opposed the Philadelphia Museum's immensely well-conceived plan.• I have scarcely been myself since and I almost hate the sight of a gun.• He awoke, and it seemed that he had scarcely closed his eyes.• It was like striking gold or falling rapturously in love: he possessed secret knowledge that his Germantown friends could scarcely imagine.• I scarcely notice that my feet are cold and wet.• They sat at one of the marble-topped tables and ordered coffee from a bored waitress who scarcely spared them a glance.• They were scarcely two hundred yards distant; yet such was the gloom that they could not be clearly distinguished. scarcely a day/year/moment etc• He was scarcely a year older than her, but proud like a fully grown man and immensely considerate.• Matthew had been at the Plaza for a week now, with scarcely a moment to call his own. |
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