barely

释义

adv.勉强; 几乎不; 刚刚…（就）

实用场景例句

Barely had we finished the meal when the phone rang.

我们刚吃完饭电话就响了。

金山词霸

She barely noticed the changes in the room.

她几乎没有注意到房间里的变化。

金山词霸

Barely 40% of the students attended the lecture.

仅有40%的学生参加了讲座。

金山词霸

She was barely 18 years old and already teaching at a prestigious university.

她只有18岁，却已经在一所著名大学任教了。

金山词霸

Barely had she opened the door when the phone rang.

她刚打开门，电话就响了。

金山词霸

Barely a week passed before they met again.

不到一周他们就又见面了。

金山词霸

The Boeing 767's doors barely stopped moving before they violently flew open.

这架波音767的舱门几乎还未停稳就猛地被掀开了。

金山词霸

Barely had the bulldozers started working when archaeologists affiliated with the Museum of London rushed to the location.

推土机几乎还没开始工作，隶属于伦敦博物馆的考古学家们就匆忙赶到了现场。

金山词霸

The sweltering 90-degree temperature rendered the air conditioner's cooling barely perceptible inside the room.

灼热的90度高温使得空调的制冷效果在室内几乎察觉不到。

金山词霸

Barely able to remember the trip to the hospital, Anastasia's recollections remained unclear.

阿纳斯塔西娅几乎想不起来去医院的那段路程，她的记忆依然模糊不清。

金山词霸

How many boys and girls are there in your class?

你班有多少男生和女生?

期刊摘选

Their performance is barely satisfactory.

他们的表演尚差强人意.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.

他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口.

《简明英汉词典》

His handwriting is barely legible.

他的字真难认.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.

他的嘴角弯了弯,露出一丝几乎察觉不到的笑容.

《简明英汉词典》

He barely caught the train.

他勉强赶上火车.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He stamped his feet as he waited with barely concealed impatience for the telephone.

他等电话时跺脚,几乎掩盖不住焦急的心情.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Sales in 2009 could be barely half of that.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

At the same time, technological innovation (创新) will barely pause for breath, and two big political changes seem likely

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Venice's deadline passed with barely a murmur this summer, just as UNESCO was meeting in Istanbul.

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Annual fees have risen from ￡1,000 to ￡9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

and employs barely 9% of the nation's workers.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Moreover, home prices barely dropped

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Some of these spectacular churches are no more than small buildings, barely 4 meters wide and 6 meters tall.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

The problem was that I barely knew anything about 3D printing, and I had only nine months to figure out how to print five fashionable looks.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

When we were children, we barely had any junk food available and we turned out just fine.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us.

出自-2013年考研翻译原文

During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them.

出自-2015年考研翻译原文

He's feeling positive, but he'll carry on blogging-not about eating as cheaply as you can—"there are so many people in a much worse state, with barely any money to spend on food"—but eating well on a budget.

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adverb

1. by a small margin;

"they could barely hear the speaker"

"we hardly knew them"

"just missed being hit"

"had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"

"would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats

2. in a sparse or scanty way;

"a barely furnished room"