常用短语

参考例句

1. A girl with your fortune can scarcely hope for a great match.

   一个女孩子凭你这点钱，是很难指望攀到一门高亲的。

2. Her heart thumped so that she could scarcely see to go on.

   她的心跳得几乎不能继续下去。

3. Roosevelt and Hull both replied in words that scarcely concealed their disgust.

   罗斯福和赫尔的答词，几乎没有隐藏他们的憎恶之情。

4. The music of Irving Berlin is scarcely comparable to that of Beethoven.

   欧文·伯林的音乐很难与贝多芬的媲美。

5. He was scarcely awake when he heard the knock at the door.

   他刚醒来就听见有人敲门。

6. Scarcely had she heard the sad story when she burst out crying.

   她一听到这悲伤的消息，就失声痛哭。

7. It was scarcely such as to promise an unbiased or even legal opinion.

   要做出没有感情色彩的论断，即使是法律范畴的论断吧，也都可以说是不可能的。

8. Scarcely had I washed the car before the sky rumbled with thunder.

   我刚洗车天空就打雷了。

9. So fine was the material that it was scarcely creased at all.

   材料是上好的，几乎不露一点儿皱褶。

10. You can scarcely expect to escape reproof for such irresponsible behavior.

    你这种不负责任的行为很难期望逃脱指责。

同义词

• barely
• hardly
• just
• scarce