hardly

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #1456 ★★★★☆

adv. 刚刚, 几乎不, 勉强是

发音

UK /ˈhɑːdli/
US /ˈhɑɹdli/

词形变化

hardlier 比较级 hardlier hardliest more hardly 比较级 hardliest 最高级 most hardly 最高级

教材释义与例句

副词

几乎不，简直不；刚刚

almost not

My parents divorced when I was six, and I hardly knew my father.

我六岁时父母离婚，我对父亲几乎一无所知。

The children were so excited they could hardly speak.

孩子们兴奋得几乎连话都说不出来了。

I can hardly believe it.

这简直让我难以置信。

(= almost no one ) writes to me these days.

如今几乎没有人给我写信了。

Dad ate hardly anything (= almost nothing ).

爸爸几乎没吃什么东西。

There was hardly any (= very little ) traffic.

路上车少人稀。

She lives in Spain, so we hardly ever (= almost never ) see her.

她住在西班牙，所以我们几乎见不到她。

释义与例句

adv. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Barely, only just, almost not.

    几乎不

    They hardly ever watch television.

    It's hardly possible he could lose the election.

    Hardly did I arrive when he left.

    I could hardly have managed it in less time.

  2. 2.

    Certainly not; not at all.

    I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather!

  3. 3.

    With difficulty.

    古体

    And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands […].

  4. 4.

    Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.

    重

    过时
  5. 5.

    Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.

    废旧

    Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].

interj.
  1. 1.

    Not really.

    I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!

词汇关系

副词

同义词 5

just hard barely scarce scarcely

相关短语

working hard or hardly working I hardly know her I hardly even know her I hardly know 'er not hardly

词源

From Middle English hardely, hardliche, from Old English heardlīċe (“boldly; hardily; without ease; in a way that causes pain; not easily; only by degrees”), equivalent to hard + -ly. Compare Dutch hardelijk, German härtlich.

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