hardly
英['hɑ?dl?]
美['hɑrdli]
英英釋意
- 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. almost not;
- "he hardly ever goes fishing"
- "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"
- "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
