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barely adv.几乎不；刚刚；勉强；少量地 (1) 他身体虚弱几乎站不起来。(2) 我们的钱只能勉强维持到周末。(3) 这个房间里陈设简陋。 Barely is a word meaning hardly, nearly, scarcely, or marginally. If there is barely a dusting of snow, there is hardly any snow at all. If your team barely won a game, then they came really close to losing. A person who is barely dressed is scantily dressed: hardly dressed at all. If you barely missed an ice cream truck, then you missed it by seconds. This is a word for near misses and close calls.

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英 ['beəli] 美 ['berli] (1) He is so weak that he can barely stand up.(2) We had barely enough money to last through the weekend.(3) The room was barely furnished. Something barely there is hardly there at all. So a barely dressed person is nearly naked. 1[ADV-BRD-NEG 广义否定结构副词]刚刚；勉强；仅仅 You use barely to say that  something is only just true or only just the case.   [ADV before v]Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital...阿纳斯塔西娅几乎记不起来怎么去的医院。It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room...当时气温达到了90度，空调也不能让房间凉快多少。His voice was barely audible...他的声音几乎听不见。She was an elfin-like girl who looked barely 10 years old.她是个鬼马小精灵，看起来也就刚满10岁。2[ADV-BRD-NEG 广义否定结构副词]刚刚…（就） If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.   [ADV before v]The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open...这架波音767刚刚停住，它的舱门就弹开了。Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.推土机刚一启动，伦敦博物馆的考古学家们就蜂拥而至了。

英语单词	barely
英美音标	英 ['beəli] 美 ['berli]
中文释义	adv.几乎不；刚刚；勉强；少量地
英语例句	(1) He is so weak that he can barely stand up. (2) We had barely enough money to last through the weekend. (3) The room was barely furnished.
中文例句	(1) 他身体虚弱几乎站不起来。 (2) 我们的钱只能勉强维持到周末。 (3) 这个房间里陈设简陋。
vocabulary简明	Something barely there is hardly there at all. So a barely dressed person is nearly naked.
vocabulary扩展	Barely is a word meaning hardly, nearly, scarcely, or marginally. If there is barely a dusting of snow, there is hardly any snow at all. If your team barely won a game, then they came really close to losing. A person who is barely dressed is scantily dressed: hardly dressed at all. If you barely missed an ice cream truck, then you missed it by seconds. This is a word for near misses and close calls.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADV-BRD-NEG 广义否定结构副词]刚刚；勉强；仅仅 You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case. [ADV before v] Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital... 阿纳斯塔西娅几乎记不起来怎么去的医院。 It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room... 当时气温达到了90度，空调也不能让房间凉快多少。 His voice was barely audible... 他的声音几乎听不见。 She was an elfin-like girl who looked barely 10 years old. 她是个鬼马小精灵，看起来也就刚满10岁。 2 [ADV-BRD-NEG 广义否定结构副词]刚刚…（就） If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second. [ADV before v] The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open... 这架波音767刚刚停住，它的舱门就弹开了。 Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped. 推土机刚一启动，伦敦博物馆的考古学家们就蜂拥而至了。

Barely Dressed Person Word Close Missed Adv Brd Neg 广义否定结构副词