hardly
常考释义
1.几乎不；几乎没有almost no; almost not; almost none
There's hardly any tea left.没有剩什么茶了。
Hardly anyone has bothered to reply.几乎没人开口回答。
She hardly ever calls me(= almost never) .她几乎从未给我来过电话。
We hardly know each other.我们彼此还不大认识呢。
Hardly a day goes by without my thinking of her(= I think of her almost every day) .我几乎天天想着她。
2.（尤用于 can 或 could 之后，主要动词之前，强调做某事很难）used especially after ‘can’ or ‘could’ and before the main verb, to emphasize that it is difficult to do sth
I can hardly keep my eyes open(= I'm almost falling asleep) .我困得都快睁不开眼了。
I could hardly believe it when I read the letter.读到那封信时，我简直不敢相信。
3.刚刚；才used to say that sth has just begun, happened, etc.
We can't stop for coffee now, we've hardly started.现在不能停下来喝咖啡，我们刚刚才开始工作呢。
We had hardly sat down to supper when the phone rang.我们刚坐下用晚餐，电话就响了。
Hardly had she spoken than she regretted it bitterly.话刚出口，她就后悔不迭。
4.（表示不大可能、不合理或愚蠢）used to suggest that sth is unlikely or unreasonable or that sb is silly for saying or doing sth
He is hardly likely to admit he was wrong.他不大可能承认自己错了。
It's hardly surprising she was fired; she never did any work.她被解雇了不足为怪，她从来没干过任何工作。
It's hardly the time to discuss it now.现在并不是讨论的时候。
You can hardly expect her to do it for free.你不可能指望她无偿地做这事。
‘Couldn't you have just said no?’ ‘Well, hardly(= of course not) , she's my wife's sister.’“你不能就说声不吗？”“喔，不可能，她是我小姨子。”
The two of them, Krista with a patch of gauze taped over her eye and Smudge with hardly any sight at all, sat by the garden pond.
他们两个，克丽斯塔一只眼蒙着一块纱布，斯玛奇几乎看不见，一起坐在花园池塘边。
Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.
可是等到父母的车消失在公路的转角，我就立刻抛掉了德语，奔向古典文学的道路。
There was such a crush on the train that I could hardly breathe.
在火车上有如此的压碎以致我几乎不能呼吸。
But HGTV is hardly the only network trying to figure out how the recession and a political shift have changed America.
但是，HGTV并不是唯一的电视网表明经济衰退和政策的转变如何改变美国的。
L: To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we'd hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price.
坦白地说，如果它不是对我们的好关系，我们有刚刚对以这价格使你成为坚定的提议是乐意的。
It was an important investment for GM, but within the company it was hardly noticed.
对于通用汽车来说，这是一笔很重要的投资，但通用内部很少有人注意到。
she whispered, hardly audibly , peeping up at him from under her eyelids, smiling and almost crying with excitement.
她低声细语，几乎听不清楚，皱着眉头向他瞧着，脸上露出微笑，激动得几乎要哭出声来。
If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hardly hit by the trade depression as any other business.
因为如果是这样，那么美容用品业就会和其他企业一样受到贸易萧条的沉重打击。
That is, no doubt, a very remarkable fact, but you would hardly call it a law of nature.
毫无疑问，这是非常显著的事实，但你却不大会称之为自然法则。
He'd hardly looked at it; the car had been waiting to take him to the airport.
他几乎看也不看，因为车子等着接他去机场。
And the Londoner's post-match comments hardly screamed out 'class' or 'dignity'. "It was a triumph for Stoke's way of playing, " he said.
就连伦敦的赛后评论都少有的惊呼“等级”或者“尊严”。“这是斯托克城式的伟大胜利”他说。
He said, "The room is too small and can hardly accommodate all of our things. So we could only hang them on the walls. "
他不得不启齿了：“房间太小了，东西多了放不下，只能挂在墙上。”
Enjoying my winter holiday in a tropical area, I could hardly imagine it had been constantly snowing in my hometown.
在热带地区度寒假的时候，我很难想象我的家乡一直在下雪。
For example, if you hardly spend any time with one another, you might write, "I would like to spend one evening a week alone with you. "
譬如，假如你没有花时间陪对方，可以写：“我想每星期花一个晚上与你单独在一起。”
The old man, it is said, was an artist but people hardly know anything about this side of his life.
听说，这位老人曾是个艺术家，但是人们对他这方面的生存简直一窍不通。
Joseph Conrad said the seaman with an undue sense of security "becomes at once worth hardly half his salt" .
约瑟夫•康拉德（JosephConrad）表示，安全意识不当的海员，“其称职程度立刻就打了至少一半的折扣”。
Dark tones will make you just a part of a crowd hardly distinguishable from others, and the fresh color may be not good for you.
深色调会让你很难从人群中区分出来，鲜艳的颜色也不可能改观。
Indeed, its very messiness might provide some reassurance that the sovereign wealth funds hardly seem to have nefarious agendas.
实际上，这种混乱可能会让人安心：主权财富基金似乎没有不可告人的计划。
All this seems to start with the behavior of the fetus, which is hardly a model of quiet diplomacy when entering strange territory.
所有这些看起来都是从胎儿的行为开始的，而当它进人陌生之地时根本说不上是个静悄悄的外交家。
I hardly spoke with Wong Sheng when we were in ZMC. My memory of him was blurred.
当我们还在中医学院读书时，我几乎没和王胜说过话，对他的记忆已经变得很模糊。
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