Scarcely

(adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

(adv.) Frugally; penuriously.

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• There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• From then on scarcely a day passed that did not bring its offering of game or other food. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He scarcely ever took a meal in the house; he lived in the counting-house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The polite pupil was scarcely gone, when, unceremoniously, without tapin burst a second intruder. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In a moment they saw him, and then me; but scarcely had they discovered me than I commenced firing, lying flat upon my belly in the moss. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I scarcely knew how to accost her; she was not to be managed like another child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I occupy my own rooms, and have held scarcely any communication with them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Scarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• He bowed very slightly without speaking, and the smile with which he greeted his lordship was scarcely perceptible. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The moon was not yet set, and we were all in shadow: I could scarcely see my master's face, near as I was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The entry was scarcely completed when they reached the Golden Cross. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• You could scarcely walk there and back without a longer rest than I shall take. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will scarcely controvert. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He had scarcely set foot without the house, when his father stood before him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I saw then that there was scarcely a chance of this ever becoming a practicable route for moving troops through an enemy's country. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• And, indeed, in two or three days, such a change has passed over Cassy, that our readers would scarcely know her. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• At night, naked and scarcely pro tected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous c limate, they slept on the wet ground coiled up like animals. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She scarcely acknowledges these parting words by any look, but when he has been gone a little while, she rings her bell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• When the coach turned into it, his heart beat so violently, that he could scarcely draw his breath. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Scarcely had it started than I gave the signal to Tars Tarkas, simultaneously springing for the receding half of the pivoting door. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He sprang down from the platform and grasped her roughly by the arm, but scarcely had he touched her than I leaped between them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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