Scarcely的意思|Scarcely的解释-里氏词典

scarcely ['skɑ:sli]

ad. 简直不, 一定不, 仅仅

scarcely

[ adv ]

only a very short time before

<adv.all>

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

almost not

<adv.all>

he hardly ever goes fishing

he was hardly more than sixteen years old

they scarcely ever used the emergency generator

Scarce \Scarce\, Scarcely \Scarce"ly\, adv.
1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

With a scarce well-lighted flame. --Milton.

The eldest scarcely five year was of age. --Chaucer.

Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
--Dryden.

He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived
who had been sent for my ransom. --W. Irving.

2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Even the most ardent French conservative could scarcely deny that Mr Edouard Balladur's cabinet is, well, somewhat staid.
But they would scarcely object if the alternative is a further loss of value.
They scarcely need reminding, but gilts traders will certainly see yesterday's floating rate auction announcement as another sign of how difficult market conditions have become.
This is praise which the general will scarcely welcome, given charges from his own allies that he is too close to the ANC. Merely extending the registration deadline, as suggested by Mr Mandela, is unlikely to woo the white right to join the process.
This made it the worst quarter since the third quarter of 1990. It is scarcely the end of the world, coming after all the handsome profits of the past few years, but it is a warning that the climate has changed.
In the meantime, the effective devaluation of sterling, as measured by the Bank of England's trade-weighted index, has been less than 6 per cent. That combination is scarcely enough to produce 0.75 percentage points of extra growth in a full year.
That was scarcely the intention of the tax reform.
I never expected to sit through a rendering of 'Jerusalem' in this theatre with the audience scarcely having the enthusiasm to join in. That is at the end of the first act.
The college community would react with outrage to racist statements, but anti-Semitic taunts, as well as academic nonsense, scarcely attract attention anymore.
Sponsored by the Independence Institute of Colorado, "Classrooms for the Free Society" sought to assess something scarcely touched by the press, but which may decide the role America will play in the world within a decade or two.
Abroad, he sees only American errors and scarcely any foreign menace.
It was scarcely an isolated slip.
I could scarcely resist his invitation - nor its implicit challenge. There are no long journeys in Iceland: it is scarcely 300 miles across at its widest.
I could scarcely resist his invitation - nor its implicit challenge. There are no long journeys in Iceland: it is scarcely 300 miles across at its widest.
Investors, though, scarcely need further encouragement to sell.
Unlike the tobacco companies, most of the world's big brewers are scarcely equipped to take advantage of the fact. Carlsberg, by contrast, has been outward looking since its beginnings, if only because the smallness of its home market forced it to be.
This is scarcely surprising, since the Soviets, notwithstanding their propaganda theme of insecurity, have never believed there was risk of a NATO attack.
Throughout Spider Woman the latter scarcely left my mind. Dorfman's piece is a low budget play which speaks volumes.
On the first point, it is scarcely credible that production costs would be lower with five or six companies - on the contrary there are probably some economies of scale.
He scarcely mentioned the gubernatorial race, but has acknowledged in the past that the campaign had been difficult for his family to endure.
Successful they may be in the private and local market, but on the scale of international critical values they scarcely register at all.
Yet it is a measure of both the strength and the weakness of Asean that there is scarcely a hint of embarrassment.
But he can scarcely claim foreknowledge of the speed at which it was going to happen.
The big four brokers, Nomura, Nikko, Daiwa and Yamaichi, will scarcely be troubled.
The level of capacity utilisation among manufacturing companies has scarcely changed since the autumn.
Christopher Lloyd, scarcely recognizable as the evil mastermind, is an ideal villain.
If you ask Mr Andre Levy-Lang, chairman of Paribas, the French banking group, how his company is faring, the answer is scarcely cheering.
"We've scarcely made any inroads on services inflation," said economist Robert G. Dederick of Northern Trust Co. in Chicago. "The Fed has a classic problem.
Yet his current 30-city concert tour is scarcely a litany of death squads, human-rights abuses and anti-apartheid slogans.
Meanwhile the nearby federal parliament building, the site of the five-day protest, was scarcely guarded.

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